My Gracious Redeemer I Love

My gra­cious Re­deem­er I love

His prais­es aloud I’ll pro­claim

And join with the ar­mies above

To shout His ado­ra­ble name.

To gaze on His glo­ries di­vine

Shall be my eter­nal em­ploy;

To see them in­ces­sant­ly shine

My bound­less

in­ef­fa­ble joy.

He free­ly re­deemed with His blood

My soul from the con­fines of hell

To live on the smiles of my God

And in His sweet pre­sence to dwell

To shine with the an­gels of light

With saints and with ser­aphs to sing

To view

with eter­nal de­light

My Je­sus

my Sav­ior

my king.

In Me­schech

as yet

I re­side

A dark­some and rest­less abode!

Molested with foes on each side

And long­ing to dwell with my God.

O

when shall my spir­it ex­change

This cell of cor­rup­ti­ble clay

For man­sions ce­les­ti­al

and range

Thro’ realms of in­ef­fa­ble day.

My glo­ri­ous Re­deem­er

I long

To see Thee des­cend on the cloud

Amidst the bright num­ber­less throng

And mix with the tri­umph­ing crowd;

O

when wilt Thou bid me as­cend

To join in Thy prais­es above

To gaze on Thee

world with­out end

And feast on Thy rav­ish­ing love.

Nor sor­row

nor sick­ness

nor pain

Nor sin

nor temp­tation

nor fear

Shall ev­er mo­lest me again

Perfection of glo­ry reigns there.

This soul and this bo­dy shall shine

In robes of sal­va­tion and praise

And ban­quet on plea­sures divine

Where God His full beau­ty dis­plays.

Ye pa­lac­es

scep­ters and crowns

Your pride with dis­dain I sur­vey;

Your pomps are but sha­dows and sounds

And pass in a mo­ment away;

The crown that my Sav­ior be­stows

Yon per­ma­nent sun shall out­shine;

My joy ev­er­last­ing­ly flows

My God

my Re­deem­er

is mine.