Come, Let Us Join Our Songs of Praise

Come

let us join our songs of praise

To our as­cend­ed priest;

He en­tered Heav­en with all our names

Engraven on His breast.

Below He washed our guilt away

By His aton­ing blood;

Now He ap­pears be­fore the throne

And pleads our cause with God.

Clothed with our na­ture still

He knows

The weak­ness of our frame

And how to shield us from the foes

Which He Him­self o’er­came.

Nor time

nor dist­ance

e’er shall quench

The fer­vor of His love;

For us He died in kind­ness here

For us He lives ab­ove.

Oh! may we ne’er for­get His grace

Nor blush to bear His name;

Still may our hearts hold fast His faith—

Our lips His praise pro­claim.