
Hymns · 1739
Arise, my soul, arise (The Saviour's Sacrifice)
Songwriter Charles Wesley
Made popular by Charles Wesley, John Wesley
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Verse 1
Arise, my soul, arise
Thy Saviour’s sacrifice! (Eph. 5:2)
All the names that love could find,
All the forms that love could take (I John 4:9-10)
Jesus in himself has join’d,
Thee, my soul, his own to make. (I Cor. 6:19-20)
Verse 2
Equal with God, most high,
He laid his glory by: (Phil. 2:6-7, John 17:5)
He, th’ eternal God was born,
Man with men he deign’d t’ appear,
Object of his creature’s scorn, (Isa. 53:3, Ps. 22:6)
Pleas’d a servant’s form to wear. (Phil. 2:6-7)
Verse 3
Hail everlasting Lord,
Divine, incarnate Word! (John 1:1, John 1:14)
Thee let all my pow’rs confess,
Thee my latest breath proclaim;
Help, ye angel choirs, to bless, (Luke 2:13-14, Heb. 1:6)
Shout the lov’d Immanuel’s name. (Isa. 7:14, Matt. 1:23)
Verse 4
Fruit of a virgin’s womb (Luke 1:42, Isa. 7:14, Matt. 1:23)
The promis’d blessing’s come: (Gen. 22:18, Gen. 26:4)
Christ the fathers’ hope of old, (Jer. 50:7)
Christ the Woman’s conq’ring Seed, (Gen. 3:15)
Christ the Saviour! Long foretold,
Born to bruise the serpent’s head. (Gen. 3:15, Rom. 16:20)
Verse 5
Refulgent from afar
See the bright Morning-Star! (Rev. 22:16, II Pet. 1:19, Rev. 2:28)
See the Day-Spring from on high (Luke 1:78)
Late in deepest darkness rise,
Night recedes, the shadows fly,
Flame with day the op’ning skies!
Verse 6
Our eyes on earth survey
The dazling Shechinah! (John 1:14, Ex. 40:34-35)
Bright, in endless glory bright (Heb. 1:3)
Now in flesh he stoops to dwell (John 1:14)
God of God, and light of light,
Image of th’ invisible. (Col. 1:15)
Verse 7
He shines on earth ador’d (Matt. 2:11)
The Presence of the LORD:
God, the mighty God and true, (Isa. 9:6, I John 5:20)
God by highest heav’n confest, (Rev. 5:11-13)
Stands display’d to mortal view,
God supreme, for ever blest. (Rom. 9:5)
Verse 8
Jesu! To thee I bow
Th’ Almighty’s Fellow thou! (Zech. 13:7)
Thou, the Father’s only Son; (John 1:18, John 3:17)
Pleas’d he ever is in thee, (Matt. 3:17, Matt. 17:5, Mark 1:11, Luke 3:22, II Pet. 1:17)
Just and holy thou alone (Acts 3:14, Rev. 15:4)
Full of grace and truth for me. (John 1:14-17)
Verse 9
High above ev’ry name (Phil. 2:9, Eph. 1:21)
Jesus, the great I AM! (Ex. 3:14, John 8:58)
Bows to JESUS ev’ry knee (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:9-11)
Things in heav’n, and earth and hell, (Phil. 2:10)
Saints adore him, demons flee, (Rev. 5:13, James 4:7)
Fiends and men and angels feel. (Rev. 5:13)
Verse 10
He left his throne above (Phil. 2:6-7)
Emptied of all, but love: (Phil. 2:6-7)
Whom the heav’ns cannot contain (I Kings 8:27)
God vouchsaf’d a worm t’ appear, (Psalm 22:6)
Lord of glory, Son of man, (I Cor. 2:8, Matt. 8:20, Luke 9:58)
Poor, and vile, and abject here. (II Cor. 8:9)
Verse 11
His own on earth he sought,
His own receiv’d him not: (John 1:11)
Him, a sign by all blasphem’d, (Luke 2:34)
Outcast and despis’d of men, (Is. 53:3)
Him they all a madman deem’d, (John 10:20, Mark 3:21)
Bold to scoff the Nazarene. (Matt. 27:39-44, Mark 15:29-32, Luke 23:35-39, John 1:46)
Verse 12
Hail Galilean King! (Matt. 27:29, Mark 15:18, John 19:3)
Thy humble state I sing; (Phil. 2:8, Zech. 9:9, Matt. 21:5)
Never shall my triumphs end, (II Cor. 2:14)
Hail derided majesty, (Matt. 27:29, Mark 15:17, John 19:2, John 19:5)
Jesus, hail! The sinner’s friend, (Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34)
Friend of Publicans—and me! (Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Luke 15:1-2)
Verse 13
Thine eye observ’d my pain
Thou good Samaritan! (Luke 10:30-37)
Spoil’d I lay and bruis’d by sin, (Luke 10:30)
Gasp’d my faint, expiring soul,
Wine and oil thy love pour’d in, (Luke 10:34)
Clos’d my wounds, and made me whole. (Luke 10:34, Ps. 147:3, Matt. 9:22, Mark 5:34, Luke 8:48)
Verse 14
Hail the life-giving Lord, (John 5:21, I Cor. 15:45)
Divine, engrafted word! (James 1:21)
Thee the Life my soul has found, (John 14:6)
Thee the Resurrection prov’d: (John 11:25)
Dead I heard the quick’ning sound, (John 5:25)
Own’d thy voice; believ’d, and lov’d! (John 10:27)
Verse 15
With thee gone up on high (Eph. 4:8, Eph. 2:5-6)
I live, no more to die:
First and Last, I feel thee now, (Isa. 44:6, Rev. 1:11, Rev. 22:13)
Witness of thy empty tomb, (Matt. 28:1-6, Mark 16:1-6, Luke 24:1-3, John 20:1-8)
Alpha and Omega thou (Rev. 1:8, Rev. 1:11, Rev. 21:6, Rev. 22:13)
Wast, and art, and art to come! (Rev. 1:8, Rev. 1:18)