Text: | O Perfect Life of Love |
Author: | Henry W. Baker, 1821-77 |
Tune: | SOUTHWELL |
Composer: | William Daman, c. 1540-91 |
1 O perfect life of love!
All, all, is finished now,
All that He left His throne above
To do for us below.
2 No work is left undone
Of all the Father willed;
His toil, His sorrows, one by one,
The Scriptures have fulfilled.
3 No pain that we can share
But He has felt its smart;
All forms of human grief and care
Have pierced that tender heart.
4 And on His thorn-crowned head
And on His sinless soul
Our sins in all their guilt were laid
That he might make us whole.
5 In perfect love He dies;
For me He dies, for me.
O all atoning Sacrifice,
I cling by faith to Thee.
6 In ev'ry time of need,
Before the judgment throne,
Thy work, O Lamb of God, I'll plead,
Thy merits, not mine own.
7 Yet work, O Lord, in me
As Thou for me hast wrought;
And let my love the answer be
To grace Thy love has brought.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O perfect life of love! |
Title: | O Perfect Life of Love |
Author: | Henry W. Baker, 1821-77 (alt.) |
Meter: | S M |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOUTHWELL |
Composer: | William Daman, c. 1540-91 |
Meter: | S M |
Key: | E Major |
Source: | The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) |