Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: How happy are they who their Saviour obey
Topic: The Gospel/Remission of Sins
Writer: C Wesley
Composer:
Meter: PM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 408
Page Number: 249, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy are they who their Saviour obey
And have laid up their treasures above!
Tongues can not express the sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love!
This comfort is mine, since the favor divine
I have found in the blood of the Lamb:
Since the truth I believ'd what a joy I've receiv'd,
What a heaven in Jesus' blest name!
'T is a heav'n below my Redeemer to know,
And the angels can do nothing more
Than to fall at his feet, and the story repeat,
And the lover of sinners adore!
Jesus all the day long is my joy and my song;
O that all to this refuge may fly!
He has lov'd me, I cried, he has suffer'd and died
To redeem such a rebel as I!
On the wings of his love I am carried above
All my sin, and temptation, and pain;
O why should I grieve, while on him I believe!
O why should I sorrow again!
O the rapturous hight of that holy delight,
Which I find in the life-giving blood!
Of my Saviour possess'd, I am perfectly bless'd,
Being fill'd with the fullness of God!
Now my remnant of days will I spend to his praise
Who has died me from sin to redeem:
Whether many or few, all my years are his due;
They shall all be devoted to him.
What a mercy is this! what a heaven of bliss!
How unspeakably happy am I!
Gather'd into the fold, with believers enroll'd --
With believers to live and to die!