Jesus, the name high over all

219 C. M.
The minister’s only business.

JESUS, the Name high over all;
   In hell, or earth, or sky; ’
   Angels and men before it fall,
   And devils fear and fly.

2 Jesus, the Name to sinners dear,-
   The Name to sinners given;
   It scatters all their guilty fear;
   It turns their hell to heaven.

3 Jesus the pris’ner’s fetters breaks,
   And bruises Satan’s head;
   Power into strengthless souls he speaks,
   And life into the dead.

4 O that the world might taste and see
   The riches of his grace;
   The arms of love that compass me,
   Would all mankind embrace.

5 His only righteousness I show,-
   His saving truth proclaim:
   ‘Tis all my business here below,
   To cry,—Behold the Lamb!

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!
                  Charles Wesley
                  Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)