The New English Hymnal ‎#470

470. To the name that brings salvation

1 TO the name that brings salvation
Praise and honour let us pay,
Which for many a generation
Hid in God's foreknowledge lay,
But to every tongue and nation
Holy Church proclaims today.

2 Jesus—be that name our treasure,
Name beyond that words can tell;
Name of gladness, name of pleasure,
Ear and heart delighting well;
Name of sweetness, passing measure,
Freeing souls from sin's dark spell.

3 Name that calls for adoration,
Name that speaks of victory,
Name for grateful meditation
In the vale of misery,
Name for loving veneration
By the citizens on high.

4 Name that whosoever preaches
Makes sweet music to the ear;
Who in prayer this name beseeches
Finds divinest comfort near;
Joyful then the heart that reaches
To embrace that name so dear.

5 Name by hard-won right exalted
Over every other name;
And when man was sore assaulted
Put the enemy to shame:
Strength to them that else had halted,
Sight to blind, and health to lame.

6 Jesu, we thy name adoring,
Long to see thee as thou art:
Of thy clemency imploring
So to write it in our heart,
That hereafter, upward soaring,
We with angels may have part.

7 Where thou reignest with the Father,
Thou the everlasting Son,
Where with the eternal Spirit,
Threefold God, yet ever One,
May our eyes behold the splendour
When our earthly course is done.

Text Information

• First Line: To the name that brings salvation
• Latin Title: Gloriosi Salvatoris
• Translator: J. M. Neale, 1818-66
• Meter: 87 87 87
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1986
• Topic: Procession; The Circumcision of Christ: January 1st
• Source: Latin, c. 15th century
• Copyright: © The Canterbury Press Norwich
• Notes: Editors also translated

Tune Information

• Name: ORIEL
• Meter: 87 87 87
• Key: G Major
• Source: Tune as set to "Pange lingua" in C. Ett's Cantica Sacra, Munich 1840