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Jesus! The Name High Over All

Charles Wesley
(1707-1788)

Jesus! the name high over all,
In hell, or earth, or sky;
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.

Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given;
It scatters all their guilty fears,
It turns their hell to heaven.

Jesus! the prisoner’s fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan’s head;
Pow’r into strengthless souls it speaks,
And life into the dead.

O that the world might taste and see
The riches of His grace!
The arms of love that compass me
Would all mankind embrace.1

His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth proclaim,
’Tis all my business here below
To cry, “Behold the Lamb!”

Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp His name,
Preach Him to all, and cry in death,
“Behold, behold the Lamb!”2

 

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  1. The second couplet of this fourth stanza is quoted by Percy Gutteridge in The Sevenfold Holy Spirit.
  2. This last stanza is quoted by Percy Gutteridge in Earth's Most Powerful Preacher.
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