Life Eternal

Tune: St Fulbert

('Ye choirs of new Jerusalem')

John 17 v.1-5

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Christ prayed before His suffering

Pleas to Father did bring

Lifted up eyes to heaven there

Did all with Father share

 

Said, Father, the hour come is

Glorify your Son, thus

That the Son He may then so do

Also glorify you

 

As you, Father, have given Him

All power, not by whim

Power, authority over

All flesh on earth for sure

 

This is life eternal, that they

Know you, Father, today

You the only true God, and too

Know Jesus Christ, Him view

 

He is the Son whom you have sent

May people here repent

And so come to salvation's day

Through Christ the Life, Truth, Way

 

I have on earth you glorified

Father, and none beside

Have finished work you gave me true

To do, to reveal you

 

And now, Father, glorify me

With your own self which, see

I had with you before the world

In your plan was unfurled