Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Jesus lives! no longer nowFrances Elizabeth Cox (18121897)
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Can thy terrors, Death, appal me:
Jesus lives! by this we know
From the grave He will recall me.
Brighter scenes at death commence;
This shall be my confidence.
High o’er all the world is given:
I may go where He is gone,
Live and reign with Him in Heaven.
God, through Christ, forgives offence;
This shall be my confidence.
Spurns the word which God hath spoken;
Grace to all that word declares,
Grace whereby sin’s yoke is broken:
Christ rejects not penitence;
This shall be my confidence.
Then will I, to Jesus living,
Pure in heart and act abide,
Praise to Him and glory giving:
Freely God doth aid dispense;
This shall be my confidence.
Naught shall me from Jesu sever
Life, nor death, nor powers of hell,
Part me now from Him for ever:
God will be my sure defence;
This shall be my confidence.
But the gate of life immortal;
This shall calm my trembling breath,
When I pass its gloomy portal.
Faith shall cry, as fails each sense,
Lord, Thou art my Confidence.