The Cyber Hymnal ‎#4997

4997. Of Him Who Did Salvation Bring

1. Of Him who did salvation bring,
I could forever think and sing:
Arise, ye needy, He’ll relieve;
Arise, ye guilty, He’ll forgive.

2. Ask but His grace, and lo, ’tis given!
Ask, and He turns your hell to heaven;
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul,
Jesus, Thy balm will make it whole.

3. To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God:
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.

4. Insatiate to this spring I fly;
I drink, and yet am ever dry;
Ah! who against Thy charm is proof!
Ah! who that loves, can love enough?

Text Information

• First Line: Of Him who did salvation bring
• Title: Of Him Who Did Salvation Bring
• Latin Title: Jesu dulcis memoria
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux (12th Century)
• Translated (from German to English): Anthony W. Boehm (1712)
• Translator (from German to English): John Christian Jacobi (1720)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English; German
• Source: Translated from Latin to German in Arndt's True Christianity; translation in Psalmodia Germanica, 1720)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: The version here derives from "A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Extracted from Various Authors," by Martin Madan, 1760.

Tune Information

• Name: ROCKINGHAM (Mason)
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1832)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 17123 53232 16512
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Public Domain