- C Tenor Recorder (Soprano & Alto Lines)
- C Great Bass Recorder (Tenor & Bass Lines)
- Verse 1
- Jesus, the Name high over all,
- In hell or earth or sky;
- Angels and mortals prostrate fall,
- And devils fear and fly.
- Verse 2
- Jesus, the Name to sinners dear,
- The Name to sinners giv’n;
- It scatters all their guilty fear,
- It turns their hell to heav’n.
- Verse 3
- O that the world might taste and see
- The riches of His grace!
- The arms of love that compass me
- Would all the world embrace.
- Verse 4
- Thee I shall constantly proclaim,
- Though earth and hell oppose;
- Bold to confess Thy glorious Name
- Before a world of foes.
- Verse 5
- His only righteousness I show,
- His saving truth proclaim;
- ’tis all my business here below
- To cry,
Behold the Lamb!
- Verse 6
- Happy, if with my latest breath
- I may but gasp His Name,
- Preach Him to all, and cry in death,
Behold, behold the Lamb!
- October 30 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- Jackson (Byzantium) composed by Thomas Jackson ([ca]1715-1781).
- Lyrics written 1749 by Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Hymn #111 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada