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Christ Our Redemption
1 Corinthians 1:30.
Thee, O my great Deliverer, Thee My Ransom, I adore: Thy death from hell hath set me free. And I am damn’d no more. |
In Thee I sure redemption have, The pardon of my sin; Thy blood I find mighty to save; Thy blood hath made me clean. |
I feel the power of Jesu’s name, It breaks the captive’s chain; And men oppose, and fiends exclaim, And sin subsists in vain. |
Redeem’d from sin, its guilt and power My soul in faith defies: But, O! I wait the welcome hour When this frail body dies. |
Come Thou, my dear Redeemer, come, Let me my life resign; O, take Thy ransom’d servant home, And make me wholly Thine. |
Fully redeem’d, I fain would rise In soul and body free, And mount to meet Thee in the skies, And ever reign with Thee. |
“It is Very Meet, Right, and our Bounden Duty, That we Should at All Times, and in All Places, Give Thanks Unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God.”
Meet and right it is to sing Glory to our God and King; Meet in every time and place. Right to show forth all Thy praise. |
Sing we now in duty bound, Echo the triumphant sound, Publish it through earth abroad, Praise the everlasting God. |
Praises here to Thee we give, Here our open thanks receive, Holy Father, Sovereign Lord, Always, everywhere adored. |
Sons of Belial, hear the cry, Loud as ye our God defy: You can glory in your shame; Shall not we our God proclaim? |
You can brave the eternal laws, Zealous in your master’s cause: Jesu shall Thy servants be Less resolved and bold for Thee? |
No, though men and fiends exclaim, Sing we still in Jesu’s name; Jesus will we ever bless, Thee before Thy foes confess. |
Silent have we been too long, Awed by earth’s rebellious throng; Should we still to sing deny, Lord, the very stones would cry Hallelujah! |
[The seven short Hymns to the Trinity which follow this poem in the first edition were transferred by the Author to another publication, and will be reprinted there.]
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