Peace, by the Blood of the Cross

Verse 1

My dear Master Jesus Christ, For peace to thee I fly; In the Saviour, I am blest To all eternity: Free from care, and sin, and strife, I rest in my dear bridegroom's love! Ever living in that Life, Which Jesus lives above.

Verse 2

O! the heights of Jesus's grace, Which I so richly view, Saviour, in thy lov'd embrace Are blessings ever new: Blessings, constant as the day, Flows from that wounded heart of thine; All the force of words can't say How glorious, how divine.

Verse 3

Lost in wonder, I alore The mighty Prince of Life; Him to praise for evermore, Be now my only strife: That God might not frown on me, Nor doom my soul to banishment, He upon the shameful tree To suffer was content.

Verse 4

Patient he the cross endur'd Did all the shame despise, Well he knew and was assur'd, This bloody sacrifice Should his children all complete In spotless truth and purity; This the joy before him set When he engag'd to die.

Verse 5

Here my sin and curse was drown'd, Redemption here obtain'd; Here the peace, once lost, and found, And Life eternal gain'd: Dead upon the cross, in him, Atonement for my sin I see, Weeping from each lifeless limb, For enemies, for me.