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#889Heaven

Hymn 889: Oh, how happy are they above !

Oh, how happy are they above ! Who the Saviour obey, And have laid up their treasures Tongue can never express The sweet comfort and peace Of a soul in its earliest love.

2. That sweet comfort was mine, When the favour divine [Lamb ; I received through the blood of the When my heart first believed, What a joy 1 received, What a heaven in Jesus's name !

3. 'Twas a heaven below My Redeemer to know ; And the angels could do nothing more Than to fall at His feet, And the story repeat, And the Lover of sinners adore.

4. Jesus all the day long Was my joy and my song ; Oh that all His salvation might see ! " He hath loved me," I cried ; " He hath suffered and died To redeem even rebels like me."

5. Oh, the rapturous height Of that holy delight Which I felt in the life-giving blood ! Of my Saviour possessed, I was perfectly blessed, As if filled with the fulness of God.