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JESUS, Thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; ’Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head. |
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2 | Bold shall I stand in that great Day, For who aught to my charge shall lay? While through Thy blood absolved I am From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. |
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3 | This spotless robe the same appears, When ruined nature sinks in years; No age can change its glorious hue, The robe of Christ is ever new. |
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4 | When from the dust of death I rise To claim my mansion in the skies, E’en then shall this be all my plea, ‘Jesus has lived, and died, for me.’ |
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5 | Jesus, be endless praise to Thee, Whose boundless mercy has for me, For me a full atonement made, An everlasting ransom paid. |
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6 | O, let the earth now hear Thy voice, Bid, Lord, Thy waiting saints rejoice; Their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesus, the Lord our Righteousness! |
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Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1700-60, tr John Wesley, 1703-91 |