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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 193 · Words: Charles Wesley · Tune: GRÄFENBERG
Jesus! the Name High over All
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A Charles Wesley hymn from 1749 exalting the name of Jesus as supreme over all creation, hell, and heaven. It proclaims salvation through Christ's name and expresses longing for the whole world to experience God's grace.
Verse 1
Jesus! the name high over all,
in hell or earth or sky;
angels and mortals prostrate fall,
and devils fear and fly.
Verse 2
Jesus! the name
to sinners dear,
the name to sinners given;
it scatters all their guilty fear,
it turns their hell to heaven.
Verse 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.
Verse 4
Thee I shall constantly proclaim,
though earth and hell oppose;
bold to confess thy glorious name
before a world of foes.
Verse 5
His only righteousness
I show,
his saving truth proclaim;
’tis all my business here below
to cry, “Behold the Lamb!”
Verse 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!”
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