Wesley Corpus

A Collection of Hymns (1780)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-collection
Year1780
Passage IDcw-hymns-1780-260
Words368
Sourcehttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html
Primitive Christianity
3 Still, O Lord, (for thine we are,) Still to us his name declare : Thy revealing Spirit give, Whom the world cannot receive. 4 Fill us with the Father's love ; Never from our souls remove : Dwell in us, and we shall be Thine through all eternity. 1 f^HRIST, from whom all blessings flow, ^^ Perfecting the saints below, Hear us, who thy nature share, Who thy mystic body are. 2 Join us, in one spirit join, Let us still receive of thine : 4b!2 For the Society Praying. Still for more on thee we call, Thou who fillest all in all ! 3 Closer knit to thee, our Head ; Nourish us, O Christ, and feed ; Let us daily growth receive, More and more in Jesus live. 4 Jesus, we thy members are ; Cherish us with kindest care : Of thy flesh, and of thy bone, Love, for ever love thine own ! 5 Move, and actuate, and guide : Divers gifts to each divide : Placed according to thy will, Let us all our work fulfil ; 6 Never from our office move, Needful to each other prove ; Use the grace on each bestow'd, Temper' d by the art of God. 7 Sweetly may we all agree, Touch' d with softest sympathy ; Kindly for each other care ; Every member feel its share. 8 Wounded by the grief of one, Now let all the members groan ; Honour'd if one member is, All partake the common bliss. 9 Many are we now and one, We who Jesus have put on : There is neither bond nor free, Male nor female, Lord, in thee ! 10 Love, like death, hath all destroy 'd, Render' d all distinctions void ; Names, and sects, and parties fall : Thou, O Christ, art all in all ! For I he Society Praying. 483 1 /^OME, and let us sweetly join, ^-^ Christ to praise in hymns divine ! Give we all, with one accord, Glory to our common Lord ; Hands, and hearts, and voices raise ; Sing as in the ancient days ; Antedate the joys above ; Celebrate the feast of love.