Christ My Song - 798
To heart and soul how sweet thou art - Whiter than snow
(Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Whiter than snow.
Hebrews 4,14.
1. To heart and soul how sweet thou art,
O great High Priest of God!
my heart brought nigh to God's own heart
by thy most precious blood. (PDF - Midi)
2. No more my countless sins shall rise
to fill me with dismay –
that precious blood before his eyes
hath put them all away.
3. My soul draws near with trust secure,
with boldness glad and free;
what matters it that I am poor,
for I am rich in thee.
4. Forgotten every stain and spot,
their memory past and gone,
for me, O God, thou seest not,
thou lookest on thy Son.
5. Is all a dream? Thou canst not lie,
thy Spirit and thy Blood
proclaim to sinners such as I
the boundless love of God.
6. They tell thy love, so deep, so free,
they tell the Father's heart –
not what I am, or I must be,
they tell me what thou art.
7. Come, weary sinners, great and small,
the open door stands wide,
thy blessed heart that welcomes all,
O Lamb of God, who died.
Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso and others 1, 1899, 20-21.
(Also in: Frances Bevan, Sketches of the Quiet in the Land, 287-288.
Here 3,4 reads: I, I am rich in thee?)