1 I love the Lord, who died for me,
I love His grace, divine and free;
I love the Scriptures, there I read
Christ loved me, and for me did bleed.
2 I love His tears and sufferings great,
I love His precious bloody sweat,
I love His blood: were that not spilt,
I could not have been freed from guilt.
3 I love to hear that He was slain,
I love His every grief and pain,
I love to meditate by faith
Upon His meritorious death.
4 I love Mount Calvary, where His love
Stronger than death itself doth prove;
I love to walk His dolorous way,
I love the grave, where Jesus lay.
5 I love His people and their ways,
I love with them to pray and praise;
I love the Father, and the Son,
I love the Spirit He sent down.
6 I love to think the time will come
When I shall be with Him at home,
And praise Him in eternity:
Then shall my love completed be.
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #10736
First Line: | I love the Lord, who died for me |
Author: | John Cennick |
Language: | English |
Refrain First Line: | I'll be true to him, who died for me |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
I love the Lord Who died for me. J. Cennick. [Love to Christ.] From the English Moravian Hymn Book, 1789, No. 615 (ed. 1886, No. 462).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)