Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
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: 160
Page Number: 180, 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 died 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 flows thro' my soul.
The cross I view - O wondrous love!
My sins expire - my fears remove;
My wicked 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 eye
And view this bleeding sacrifice;
Almighty love, therein display'd,
Would bruise and crush the serpent.
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.