Text: | A Good High Priest Is Come |
Author: | John Cennick |
Tune: | MILLENNIUM |
1 A good High Priest is come,
supplying Aaron's place,
and taking up his room,
dispensing life and grace;
the law by Aaron's priesthood came,
but grace and truth by Jesus' name.
2 He once temptations knew
of every sort and kind,
that He might succor show
to ev'ry tempted mind;
in ev'ry point the Lamb was tried
like us, and then for us He died.
3 He died, but lives again,
and by the throne He stands,
there shows how He was slain,
op'ning His piercèd hands;
our Priest abides and pleads the cause
of us who have transgressed His laws.
4 I other priests disclaim,
and laws and off'rings too;
none but the bleeding Lamb
the mighty work can do;
He shall have all the praise: for He
has loved, and died, and lives for me.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | A good High Priest is come |
Title: | A Good High Priest Is Come |
Author: | John Cennick (1744) |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
Topic: | Salvation |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MILLENNIUM |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6.8.8 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | English melody; Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes, 1855 |