Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: How happy are they
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Hymn Number: 325
Page Number: 307, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy are they
Who the Saviour obey,
And have laid up their treasures aabove,
Tongue cannot express
The sweet comfort and peace,
Of a soul in its earliest love.
That comfort was mine,
When the favor divine,
I first found in the blood of the Lamb,
When my heart it believed,
What a joy I received,
What a heaven in Jesus' s name.
'Twas a heaven below;
My Saviour to know,
The angels could do nothing more,
Than to fall at is feet
And the story repeat
And the love of sinners (restore, scroll, call ???????)
Jesus, all the day long,
Was my joy and my song,
O that all his salvation might see;
He hath loved me, I cried,
He hath suffered and dies,
To redeem such a rebel as me.
On the wings of his love,
I was carried above
All sin and temptation and pain;
I could to believe
That I ever should grieve,
That I ever should suffer again
I rode on the sky,
Freely justified I,
Nor envied Elijah his seat:
My soul mounted higher,
In a charriot of fire
And the moon it was under my feet.
O! the rapturous height,
Of that holy delight,
Which I felt in the live-giving blood;
Of my saviour possessed,
I was perfectly blessed,
As if filled with the fulness of God.