O perfect life of love

by Henry Williams Baker, 1821–77

1 O PERFECT life of love! 
  all, all is finished now, 
 all that He left His throne above 
  to do for us below. 
 
2  No work is left undone 
  of all the Father willed; 
 His toil and sorrows, one by one, 
  the Scriptures have fulfilled. 
 
3  No pain that we can share 
  but He has felt its smart; 
 all forms of human grief and care 
  have pierced that tender heart. 
  
4  And on His thorn-crowned head, 
  and on His sinless soul, 
 our sins in all their guilt were laid, 
  that He might make us whole. 
 
5  In perfect love He dies: 
  for me He dies, for me! 
 O all-atoning sacrifice, 
  I cling by faith to Thee. 
 
6  In every time of need, 
  before the judgment throne, 
 Thy work, O Lamb of God, I’ll plead, 
  Thy merits, not my own. 
 
7  Yet work, O Lord, in me 
  as Thou for me hast wrought; 
 and let my love the answer be 
  to grace Thy love has brought.