
Hymnal: Laudes Domini #790 (1884) First Line: Jesus, name all names above Lyrics: 1 Jesus, name all names above,
Jesus, best and dearest,
Jesus, fount of perfect love,
Holiest, tenderest, nearest;
Jesus, source of grace completest,
Jesus, purest, Jesus sweetest,
Jesus, well of power divine,
Make me, keep me, seal me thine.
2 Jesus, open me the gate
Which the sinner entered,
Who, in his last dying state,
Wholly on thee ventured;
Thou, whose wounds are ever pleading,
And thy passion interceding,
From my misery let me rise
To a home in Paradise.
3 Thou didst call the prodigal:
Thou didst pardon Mary:
Thou whose words can never fall,
Love can never vary;
Lord, to heal my lost condition,
Give--for thou canst give--contrition;
Thou canst pardon all my ill
If thou wilt;--oh, say, "I will!"
4 Woe, that I have turned aside
After fleshly pleasure!
Woe, that I have faintly tried
For the heavenly treasure!
Treasure, safe in home supernal,
Incorruptible, eternal:
Treasure no less price hath won
Than the passion of the Son.
5 Jesus, crowned with thorns for me,
Scourged for my transgression,
Witnessing, in agony
That thy good confession;
Jesus, clad in purple raiment,
For my evil making payment,
Let not all thy woe and pain,
Let not Calvary, be in vain.
6 When I cross death's bitter sea,
And its waves roll higher,
Help the more forsaking me,
As the storm draws nigher:
Jesus, leave me not to languish,
Helpless, helpless, full of anguish:
Tell me, "Verily I say,
Thou shalt be with me to-day."
Languages: English Tune Title: THEOCTISTUS
An ancient Hymn