Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Behold the love the grace of God
Topic: Love and Union
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 131
Page Number: 118, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBehold the love, the grace of God,
Display'd in Jesus' precious blood;
My soul's on fire, it pants to prove
The fulness of redeeming love.
Our God is love-O, leap my soul,
Let warm hosannas gently roll;
Love gave his Son to save our race,
And Jesus di'd through sov'reign grace.
What love has done, sing earth around,
Angels prolong th' eternal sound;
Lo, Jesus bleeding on the tree!
There, there the love of God I see.
I look, I gaze, my rebel heart
Feels its own hardness soon depart;
Repenting tears begin to roll,
And love in streams flow thro' my soul.
The cross I view-O wondrous love!
My sins expire-my fears remove;
My native enmity is slain,
I'm reconcil'd-I'm born again.
By faith in Jesus' bloody cross
The Devil's kingdom suffers loss;
Crowds, on the way from sin, to God,
Have overcome thro' Jesus' blood.
O! that the world would turn their eyes,
And view this bleeding sacrifice;
Almighty love, therein display'd,
Would bruise and crush the serpent's head.
O! how I long to see the hour
When sin and death shall lose their power;
When all the world, both great and small,
Shall own the sov'reign Lord of all!
Thou bleeding Lamb, thou mighty God,
O spread thy conquest far abroad;
Thy kingdom come, exalt thy fame,
Let every knee bow to thy name.
Shout, Christians shout, the Lord is come,
Prepare, prepare to make him room;
On earth he reigns, we feel him near,
The signs of glory now appear.