Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: How happy are they
Topic: Rejoicing
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Tune:
Hymn Number: 143
Page Number: 156, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy are they
Who the Saviour obey
And have laid up their treasures above;
Tongue cannot express
The sweet comfort and peace,
Of a soul in its earliest love.
That comfort was mine,
When the favor divine,
I first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When my heart it believ'd
What a joy I receiv'd,
What a heav'n in Jesus' dear name.
'Twas a heaven below,
My Saviour to know,
The angels could do nothing more
That to fall at his feet,
And the story repeat,
And the lover of sinners adore.
Jesus allt he day long,
Was my joy and my song;
O that all his salvation might see!
He hath lov'd me, I cried,
He hath suffer'd and died,
To redeem such a rebel as me.
On the wings of his love,
I was carried above
All sin and temptation and pain;
I could not believe
That I ever should grieve.
I rode on the sky,
Freely justified I,
Nor envied Elijah his seat;
My soul mounted higher,
In a chariot of fire,
And the moon it was under my feet.
O! let the rapturous height,
Of that holy delight,
Which I felt in the life giving blood!
Of my Saviour possess'd,
I was perfectly bless'd,
Being fill'd with the fullness of God.