Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Jesus O word divinely sweet
Topic: For the Lord's Supper
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 138
Page Number: 139, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJesus! O word divinely sweet!
How charming is the sound!
What joyful news! What heavenly sense
In that dear name is found!
Our souls, all guilty and condemn'd,
In hopeless fetters lay;
Our souls with numerous sins depriv'd,
To death and hell a prey,
Jesus, to purge away this guilt,
A willing victim fell,
And on his cross triumphant broke
The bands of death and hell.
Our foes were mighty to destroy:
He mighty was to save;
He dy'd, but could not long be held
A prisoner in the grave.
Jesus! Who mighty art to save,
Still push thy conquests on;
Extend the triumphs of thy cross,
Where'er the sun has shone.
O captain of salvation! Make
Thy power and mercy known;
Till crouds of willing converts come
And worship at thy throne.