Jesus! the Name High over All (UMH 193)

Jesus! the Name High over All
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Words: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788

Music: Praxis Pietatis Melica, Berlin, 1653; Johann Cruger, 1598-1662

Tune: GRAFENBERG; Meter: CM

1.  Jesus! the name high over all, 

     in hell or earth or sky; 

     angels and mortals prostrate fall, 

     and devils fear and fly.

 2.  Jesus! the name to sinners dear, 

     the name to sinners given; 

     it scatters all their guilty fear, 

     it turns their hell to heaven. 

 3.  O that the world might taste and see 

     the riches of his grace!  

     The arms of love that compass me 

     would all the world embrace. 

 4.  Thee I shall constantly proclaim, 

     though earth and hell oppose; 

     bold to confess thy glorious name 

     before a world of foes.

 5.  His only righteousness I show, 

     his saving truth proclaim; 

     'tis all my business here below 

     to cry, "Behold the Lamb!"

 6.  Happy, if with my latest breath 

     I may but gasp his name, 

     preach him to all and cry in death, 

     "Behold, behold the Lamb!"