Christ My Song - 2419
Jesus, name all names above
(Theoctistus of the Studium/John Mason Neale/
Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
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 truest, Jesus sweetest,
Jesus, Well of power divine,
make me, keep me, seal me thine! PDF - Midi
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, amidst my lost condition
give – for thou canst give – contrition!
Thou canst pardon all mine ill:
if thou wilt, O say, "I will"!
4. Woe, that I have turned aside
after fleshly pleasure!
Woe, that I have never tried
for the heavenly treasure!
Treasure, safe in homes 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, through agony,
that thy good confession;
Jesus, clad in purple raiment,
for my evils making payment;
let not all thy woe and pain,
let not Calvary be in vain!
6. 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 today!"
Theoctistus of the Studium, translated by John Mason Neale, in: Schaff, Philip: Christ in Song, 1870, 317-318.