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Text:Christ's crimson blood and righteousness
Author:Nicoluas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf
Translator:Rev. Emanuel Cronenwett, D. D.
Tune:ROCKINGHAM (New)
Composer:Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc.

260a. Christ's crimson blood and righteousness

1 Christ's crimson blood and righteousness
My glory are and spotless dress;
In this before my God I'll stand
And enter heaven, my fatherland.

2 And should I through Christ's merits prove
Yet e'er so faithful in my love,
That I could keep from wrong alway
And sin not, to my dying day,

3 Still would I, when I Christ shall see,
Not think of zeal or piety,
But this: a sinner nears the throne
Whose plea for life is grace alone.

4 Being praised, O Jesus, without end,
That Thou from heaven didst descend,
And hast for me a ransom paid—
For a full atonement made.

Text Information
First Line: Christ's crimson blood and righteousness
Author: Nicoluas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (1739)
Translator: Rev. Emanuel Cronenwett, D. D. (1880)
Meter: L. M. No. 1
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: The Catechism: Justification; Fifth Sunday in Lent; Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (1 more...)
Notes: Now Public Domain. From the German text: Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit
Tune Information
Name: ROCKINGHAM (New)
Composer: Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. (1880)
Meter: L. M. No. 1
Key: G Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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