Love was outpoured

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  • 1022

Love was outpoured in the blood that was shed:
Jesus my Lord, Jesus my love;
broken his body, disfigured his head;
Jesus my Lord above.
Once, on the cross
once, in the tomb,
once, the day he was raised.
Now and for ever, Love of all loves,
Jesus be praised, Jesus be praised,
Jesus be praised, be praised.

2. We were redeemed by the blood that was shed:
Jesus my Lord, Jesus my love;
ransomed, delivered, alive from the dead;
seated with him above.
Nailed to his cross,
buried with Christ,
risen the day he was raised.
Now and for ever, Life of our lives,
Jesus be praised, Jesus be praised,
Jesus be praised, be praised.

3. Love in our place was once broken and bled:
Jesus my Lord, Jesus my love;
substitute, willing to die in our stead,
Jesus my Lord above.
Ours was the sin,
his were the nails,
all condemnation erased.
Now and for ever, Lamb on the throne,
Jesus be praised, Jesus be praised,
Jesus be praised, be praised.
Jesus be praised, be praised.

© 1996 Catherine M Motyer Lowndes
J Alec Motyer

The Christian Life - Union With Christ

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Motyer, John Alexander (Alec)

b Dublin 1924. d 2016. The High School, Dublin and Trinity Coll, Univ of Dublin; MA, BD, with several prizes, and Lambeth DD (1997). Ordained (CofE) in 1947, he served curacies in Penn Fields (Wolverhampton) and at Holy Trinity Ch, Bristol; he was Tutor, then Vice-principal of Clifton Theol Coll Bristol 1950–65. After a period back in parish life as Vicar of St Luke W Hampstead he returned to Bristol as Deputy Principal of Tyndale Hall 1970–71, and Principal of the new (amalgamated) Trinity Coll 1971–81. He was also a visiting Prof in OT at the Reformed Theological Seminary at Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He then became the Minister at Westbourne (Bournemouth, 1981–89) until retirement at Bishopsteignton, Teignmouth, Devon in 1990, moving later to Poynton, Ches. Few men of his generation have taught so many Anglican ordinands while also having parish experience and academic distinction; of a clearly Reformed stamp, for more than 40 years he has also been an occasional speaker at the Keswick Convention and some of its overseas equivalents. The author of an early ‘Tyndale monograph’ on Exod 6, The Revelation of the Divine Name (1959), a ‘Hodder Christian paperback’ After Death (1965), and a major commentary on Isaiah (1993), he has also contributed to Bible and Theological Dictionaries and written on Amos, James, Philippians, Zephaniah and Haggai, Psalms, Exodus, (‘A scenic route through the OT’ and ‘The days of our pilgrimage’), on the OT in general (Discovering the Old Testament) and (with his son Stephen) on Thessalonians. Nos.404, 655, 1021, 1022.