Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Jesus thy far-extended fame
Topic: Repenting Sinner
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 34
Page Number: 038, 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 cheered, their wants relieved,
Healed the diseased and cured the blind.
And art thou not the Saviour still,
In every 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 did'st in the flesh appear,
Thy tender mercies ever last,
And still thy healing power is here.
All my disease, my every 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, Saviour, now on me bestow;
And purge my conscience with thy blood,
And wash my nature white as snow.