Meek suppliants, LORD, Thy help we crave, The souls Thy saving Blood doth seal. So, while in darksome house of clay We pray Thee, LORD of Heaven and earth, FATHER, to Thee all glory be, And SON, Who from the dead art raised, And SPIRIT blest, with both confest, One GOD, through endless ages praised. "If we believe that JESUS died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in JESUS will God bring with Him." 77. JESU lives! no longer now Can thy terrors, Death, appal us: JESU lives! and this we know, Thou, O Grave, canst not enthral us. Alleluia ! JESU lives! to Him the throne Rest and reign with Him in Heaven. Alleluia! JESU lives! for us He died : Alleluia! JESU lives! we know full well Nought from us His love shall sever Life, nor death, nor powers of hell Alleluia! JESU lives! henceforth is death Alleluia ! The Ascension. "While they beheld, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight." 78. HAIL! the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia! Glorious to His native skies, Alleluia! CHRIST, awhile to mortals given, Alleluia! Enters now the highest Heaven. Alleluia! Thee the glorious triumph waits, Alleluia! Lift your heads, eternal gates! Alleluia! CHRIST has vanquished death and sin, Alleluia! Take the King of glory in. Alleluia! Lo! the Heaven its LORD receives, Alleluia! Yet He loves the earth He leaves; Alleluia! Though returning to His Throne, Alleluia! Still He calls mankind His own. Alleluia ! Still for us He intercedes, Alleluia! His prevailing Death He pleads, Alleluia! Near Himself prepares our place, Alleluia! Harbinger of human race. Alleluia ! O though parted from our sight, Alleluia! Far above the azure height, Alleluia! Grant our hearts may thither rise, Alleluia! Seeking Thee above the skies, Alleluia! "When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and received gifts for men, and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it." 79. AUTHOR of lost man's salvation, JESU! each true heart's Delight, Light of lovers chaste and bright! LORD! what mighty Mercy bowed Thee Bursting through the gulf infernal, Sittest now at GOD's Right Hand. O may yet Thy Pity turn Thee, Filled with Thine all-hallowing Light. Thou, the Way, dost heavenward lead us; Crown of life, when tears shall end. |