Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Jesus thy far extended fame
Topic: Penitential
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 33
Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJesus, thy far extended fame,
My drooping soul exults to hear;
Thy name, thy all-restoring name,
Is music in a sinner's ear.
Sinners of old thou didst receive,
With comfortable words and kind;
Their sorrows cheer'd, their wants reliev'd,
Heal'd the diseas'd and cur'd the blind.
And art thou not the Saviour still,
In ev'ry place and age the same?
Hast thou forgot thy gracious skill,
Or lost the virtue of thy name?
Tho' eighteen hundred years are past,
Since thou didst in the flesh appear;
Thy tender mercies ever last,
And still thy healing pow'r is here.
All my disease, my ev'ry sin,
To thee, O Jesus, I confess;
In pardon, Lord, my cure begin,
And perfect me in holiness.
That token of thy utmost good,
Now, Savioiur, now on me bestow;
And purge my conscience with thy blood,
And wash my nature white as snow.