Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Come let us join in songs of praise
Topic: Christ's Coronation and Glory
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: Hymn 36
Page Number: 115, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, let us join in songs of praise
To our ascended Priest;
He enter'd heav'n with all our names
Engraven on his breast.
On earth he wash'd our guilt away
By his atoning blood;
And now he sits upon the throne,
And pleads our cause with God.
What though while here we oft must feel
Temptation's keenest dart,
Our tender High Priest feels it too,
And will appease the smart.
Cloth'd with our nature still, he knows
The weakness of our frame,
And how to shield us from the foes
Which he himself o'ercame.
Nor time nor distance e'er shall quench
The fervor of his love;
For us he died in kindness here,
Nor is less kind above.
O may we ne'er forget his grace,
Nor blush to wear his name!
Still may our hearts hold fast his faith,
Our mouths his praise proclaim!