Songs

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

214
		L.M.

1	Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness 
	My beauty are, my glorious dress; 
	’Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, 
	With joy shall I lift up my head. 

2	Bold shall I stand in Thy great day; 
	For who aught to my charge shall lay? 
	Fully, by Thee, absolved I am 
	From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3	Lord, I believe Thy precious blood, 
	Which, at the mercy seat of God, 
	Forever doth for sinners plead, 
	For me, e’en for my soul, was shed. 

4	Lord, I believe were sinners more 
	Than sands upon the ocean shore, 
	Thou hast for all a ransom paid, 
	For all a full atonement made. 

5	When from the dust of death I rise 
	To claim my mansion in the skies, 
	Ev’n then shall this be all my plea, 
	Jesus hath lived and died, for me.

6	O let the dead now hear Thy voice; 
	Now bid Thy banished ones rejoice; 
	Their beauty this, their glorious dress, 
	Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness.

					Von Zinzendorf, Tr. J. Wesley