ELHB Hymn 244

Jesus, my great High Priest

Isaac Watts (1709, cento)

Hymn Text

244. Jesus, my great High Priest

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1 Jesus, my great High Priest,
Offered His blood and died;
My guilty conscience seeks
No sacrifice beside.
His powerful blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.
2 To this dear Surety's hand
Will I commit my cause;
He answers and fulfills
His Father's broken laws.
Behold my soul at freedom set;
My Surety paid the dreadful debt.
3 My Advocate appears
For my defence on high;
The Father bows His ears,
And lays his thunder by.
Not all that hell or sin can say
Shall turn His heart, His love away.

Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #244