C. Wesley

C.M.

JESUS, the name high over all,

In hell, or earth, or sky:

Angels and men before it fall,

And devils fear and fly.

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Jesus, the name to sinners dear,

The name to sinners given;

It scatters all their guilty fear,

It turns their hell to heaven.

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Jesus the prisoner’s fetters breaks,

And bruises Satan’s head;

Power into strengthless souls He speaks,

And life into the dead.

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Oh, that the world might taste and see,

The riches of His grace!

The arms of love that compass me,

Would all mankind embrace.

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His only righteousness I show,

His saving truth proclaim:

’Tis all my business here below,

To cry “Behold the Lamb!”

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Happy, if with my latest breath

I may but gasp His name:

Preach Him to all, and cry in death,

“Behold, behold the Lamb!”