Church Book ‎#235

235. Jesus, Name all names above

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 Thou didst call the prodigal;
Thou didst pardon Mary:
Thou whose words can never fall,
Love can never vary;
Thou whose wounds are ever pleading,
And Thy Passion interceding,
From my misery let me rise
To a home in Paradise!

3 Jesus, crowned with thorns for me,
Scourged for my transgression!
Witnessing, through agony,
That Thy good confession;
Jesus, clad in purple raiment,
For my evils making payment;
Let no all Thy woe and pain,
Let not Calvary, be in vain!

4 When I reach 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, hopeless, full of anguish!
Tell me,-- "Verily, I say,
Thou shalt be with Me to-day!"

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, Name all names above
• Author: Theoctistus of the Studium (ab. 890)
• Translator: John Mason Neale (1862)
• Meter: 7, 6, 8, 7.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1890
• Topic: Communion with Christ; Epiphany, Fourth Sunday; Sundays in Lent; Passion Week; Easter Season, Thrid Sunday; Twentieth Sunday after Trinity

Tune Information

• Name: ST. JOHN DAMASCENE
• Meter: 7, 6, 8, 7.
• Key: A Major
• Notes: Composer from index: Arthur H. Brown