Wesley Corpus

Hymn After the Sacrament Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), Part II Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- 1 Sons of God, triumphant rise, Shout th’ accomplish’d sacrifice! Shout your sins in Christ forgiv’n, Sons of God, and heirs of heav’n! 52This hymn included later in HLS (1745), as Hymn CLXIV. 2 Ye that round our altars throng, List’ning angels join the song: Sing with us, ye heav’nly pow’rs, Pardon, grace, and glory ours! 3 Love’s mysterious work is done! Greet we now th’accepted53 Son, Heal’d and quicken’d by his blood, Join’d to Christ, and one with God. 4 Christ, of all our hopes the seal; Peace divine in Christ we feel, Pardon to our souls applied: Dead for all, for me he died! 5 Sin shall tyrannize no more, Purg’d its guilt, dissolv’d its pow’r; Jesus makes our hearts his throne, There he lives, and reigns alone. 6 Grace our ev’ry thought controuls, Heav’n is open’d in our souls, Everlasting life is won, Glory is on earth begun. 7 Christ in us; in him we see Fulness of the deity. Beam of the eternal beam; Life divine we taste in him! 53“Th’ accepted” changed to “th’ atoning” in 4th edn. (1743), 5th edn. (1756), and HLS (1745). 8 Him we only taste below;54 Mightier joys ordain’d to know55 Him when fully ours we prove,56 Ours the heav’n of perfect love!57