Jesu, Source of gladness (Jacobi)

I. Jesu! Source of Gladness,
Comfort in my Sadness,
Thou canst end my Grief;
Lord, thy Sight I'm wanting,
While my Heart is panting,
After thy Relief.
Saviour Christ! my Lamb and Priest!
Heav'n and Earht, without thy Treasure,
Can afford no Pleasure.

II. Under thy Protection,
Hell and Sin's Infection
Cannot hurt my Heart.
Winds may roar and thunder
Satan seek to plunder;
Vain is all his Art.
Lightnings Glare may sadly scare,
And disturb the whole Creation,
CHRIST is my Salvation.

III. I defy all Evil,
Sword, Death, Hell, and Devil,
With their Slavish Fear.
Tho' the World's me stinging,
Yet I will be singing,
For my God is near.
Satan's Clan may curse and ban;
Earth and Hell must soon be quiet,
Tho' they storm and riot.

IV. All ye worldly Treasures!
With your Sinful Pleasures,
To your Slaves remove!
Honour and Ambition,
Cease your Opposition
To my sacred Love;
Death and Pain, with all their Train,
Shall do Nothing but discover
How I love my Lover.

V. I would leave for JESUS
All the Gold of CROESUS,
And its dazzling Show.
Sifters of Ambition!
Your admir'd Condition
Must expire in Woe.
Get ye, hence, ye Joys of Sense,
To the Men of Wit and Pleasure;
JESUS is my Treasure.

VI. Fly,ye gloomy spirits;
JESUS with his Merits
Is my Guard and Prop.
Those that love TH' ANOINTED,
Shan't be disappointed
Of their living Hope.
While I here with Patience bear,
CHRIST is turning all my Sadness
Into Joy and Gladness.

Source: Psalmodia Germanica: or, The German Psalmody: translated from the high Dutch together with their proper tunes and thorough bass (2nd ed., corr. and enl.) #128

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