1JESUS the name high over all
In hell, or earth, or sky:
Angels and men before it fall;
And devils fear and fly.
2Jesus the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given!
It scatters all their guilty fears:
It turns their hell to heaven.
3Jesus the prisoner's fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan's head:
Power into strengthless souls it speaks,
And life into the dead.
4Oh that the world might taste and see
The riches of his grace!
The arms of love that compass me
Would all mankind embrace.
5Oh that my Jesu's heavenly charms
Might every bosom move!
Fly, sinners, fly into those arms
Of everlasting love!
6His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth proclaim:
'Tis all my business here below
To cry, Behold the Lamb!
7Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp his name!
Preach him to all, and cry in death,
Behold! behold the Lamb!