Wesley Corpus

The Communion of Saints. Part III. John 17:20, etc. Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- The Communion of Saints. Part III. John xvii. 20, &c. Christ, our head, gone up on high, Be thou in thy Spirit nigh, Advocate with God, give ear To thine own effectual prayer: Hear the sounds thou once didst breathe In thy days of flesh beneath, Now, O Jesu, let them be Strongly eccho’d back to thee. We, O Christ, have thee receiv’d, We the gospel-word believ’d, Justly then we claim a share In thine everlasting prayer. One the Father is with thee; Knit us in like unity; Make us, O uniting Son, One as thou and he are one. If thy love to us hath given All the glory81 of his heaven, (From eternity thine own, Glory here in grace begun) 81Charles Wesley changes “glory” to “glories” in All in All (1761). Let us now the gift receive, By the vital union live, Join’d to God, and perfect be, Mystically one in thee. Let it hence to all be known, Thou art with thy Father one, One with him in us be shew’d, Very God of very God; Sent, our spirits to unite, Sent to make us sons of light, Sent, that we his grace may prove, All the riches of his love. Thee he lov’d ere82 time begun, Thee the coeternal Son; He hath to thy merit given Us, th’ adopted heirs of heaven. Thou hast will’d that we should rise, See thy glory in the skies, See thee by all heaven ador’d, Be forever with our Lord. Thou the Father see’st alone, Thou to us hast made him known: Sent from him we know thou art, We have found thee in our heart: Thou the Father hast declar’d: He is here our great reward, Ours his nature and his name-- Thou art ours with him the same. 82Ori., “e’er”; but clearly used in sense of “before.”