Wesley Corpus

A Collection of Hymns (1780)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-collection
Year1780
Passage IDcw-hymns-1780-137
Words396
Sourcehttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html
Catholic Spirit Justifying Grace Pneumatology Sanctifying Grace Trinity
Tbee, Holy Son, adore ; Tbee, Spirit of Truth and Holiness, We worship evermore. For Believers Rejoicing. .249 4 The incommunicable right, Almighty God ! receive, Which angel-choirs, and saints in light, And saints embodied, give. 5 Three Persons equally divine We magnify and love ; And both the choirs ere long shall join, To sing thy praise above. 6 Hail! holy, holy, holy Lord, (Our heavenly song shall be,) . Supreme, essential One, adored In co-eternal Three ! HYMN 260. 1's. 1 TTOLY, holy, holy Lord, -H- God the Father, and the Word, God the Comforter, receive Blessings more than we can give : Mix'd with those beyond the sky, Chanters to the Lord Most High, We our hearts and voices raise, Echoing thy eternal praise. 2 One, inexplicably Three, One, in simplest Unity, God, incline thy gracious ear, Us, thy lisping creatures, hear : Thee while man, the earth-born, sings. Angels shrink within their wings ; Prostrate Seraphim above Breathe unutterable love. 3 Happy they who never rest, With thy heavenly presence blest ! They the heights of glory see, Sound the depths of Deity ! 'ZOV For Believers Rejoicing. Fain with them our souls would vie ; Sink as low, and mount as high ; Fall o'erwhelm'd with love, or soar ; Shout, or silently adore ! 1 /^OME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ^^ Whom one all-perfect God we own, Restorer of thine image lost, Thy various offices make known ; Display, our fallen souls to raise, Thy whole economy of grace. 2 Jehovah in three Persons, come, And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal, Poor, guilty, dying worms, in whom Thou dost eternal life reveal ; The knowledge of thyself bestow, And all thy glorious goodness show. 3 Soon as our pardon'd hearts believe That thou art pure, essential love, The proof we in ourselves receive Of the Three Witnesses above ; Sure, as the saints around thy throne, That Father, Word, and Spirit, are One. 4 O that we now, in love renew'd, Might blameless in thy sight appear : Wake we in thy similitude, Stamp'd with the Triune character : Flesh, spirit, soul, to thee resign ; And live and die entirely thine ! For Believers Rejoicing. £*) I HYMN 262. cm. 1 \ THOUSAND oracles divine -^*- Their common beams unite ; That sinners may with angels join