At mgpc this morning we sang an adapted version of Jesus, Thy Blood And Righteousness.
Translated by John Wesley from words composed by Nicholas von Zinzendorf, the five verses below are representative of what may be found in common usage today. There are versions with many more stanzas. (Which also demonstrate the biblical literacy of von Zinzendorf)
We sang it to the tune Rimington, though it is associated with the tune Germany, which features below.
These lyrics could stand a melodic contemporary tune, suited for congregational singing.
The lyrics:
1
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.
2
Bold shall I stand in thy great day;
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully absolved through these I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
3
When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,
Ev’n then this shall be all my plea,
Jesus hath lived, hath died, for me.
4
Jesus, be endless praise to thee,
Whose boundless mercy hath for me—
For me a full atonement made,
An everlasting ransom paid.
5
O let the dead now hear thy voice;
Now bid thy banished ones rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, thy blood and righteousness.
A duet which features some nice harmony.
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