Enter’d the holy place above

Verse 1
Entred the holy place above,
Cover’d with meritorious scars,
The tokens of his dying love
Our great high-priest in glory bears,
He pleads his passion on the tree,
He shews himself to God for me.

Verse 2
Before the throne my Saviour stands,
My friend and Advocate appears;
My name is graven on his hands,
And him the Father always hears;
While low at Jesu’s cross I bow,
He hears the blood of sprinkling now!

Verse 3
This instant now I may receive
The answer of his powerful prayer:
This instant now by him I live,
His prevalence with God declare:
And soon my spirit in his hands
Shall stand, where my forerunner stands!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Christ is entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.”—[Heb.] ix. 24. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 140.
Publishing: Public Domain