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Hymn: Jesus in thee our eyes behold (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Jesus in thee our eyes behold

Topic: Christ/His Mediatorial Reign

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 242

Page Number: 150, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Jesus, in thee our eyes behold

A thousand glories more

Than the rich gems and polish'd gold

The sons of Aaron wore.



They first their own burnt-off'rings brought

To purge themselves from sin:

Thy life was pure, without a spot,

And all thy nature clean.



Fresh blood, as constant as the day,

Was on their altar spilt;

But thy one off'ring takes away

For ever all our guilt.



Their priesthood ran through sev'ral hands,

For mortal was their race;

Thy never-changing office stands

Eternal as thy days.



Once, in the circuit of a year,

With blood, but not his own,

Aaron with the vail appear'd 

before the golden throne;



But Christ, with his own precious blood,

Ascends above the skies,

And in the presence of our God

Shows his own sacrifice.



Jesus, the King of glory, reigns

On Zion's holy hill;

Looks like a lamb that had been slain,

And wears his priesthood still.



He ever lives in heav'n to plead

The cause which cost his blood,

And saves unto the utmost those

Who by him come to God.