JESUS! the name high over all, In hell, or earth, or sky: Angels and men before it fall, And devils fear and fly.
Jesus! the name to sinners dear, The name to sinners given; It scatters all their guilty fear, It turns their hell to Heaven.
Jesus! the prisoner’s fetters breaks, And bruises Satan’s head; Power into strengthless souls it speaks, And life into the dead.
O that the world might taste and see The riches of His grace; The arms of love that compass me Would all mankind embrace.
His only righteousness I show, His saving grace proclaim; ’Tis all my business here below, To cry, ‘Behold the Lamb!’
Happy, if with my latest breath I might but gasp His name; Preach Him to all, and cry in death: ‘Behold, behold the Lamb!’
Charles Wesley, 1707-88