Jesus, Thine all-victorious love

371 Azmon. C. M.

1 Jesus, Thine all-victorious love
   Shed in my heart abroad;
   Then shall my feet no longer rove,
   Rooted and fixed in God.

2 Refining fire, go through my heart,
   Illuminate my soul;
   Scatter Thy life through every part,
   And sanctify the whole.

3 No longer then my heart shall mourn,
   While, purified by grace,
   I only for His glory burn,
   And always see His face.

4 My steadfast soul, from falling free,
   Shall then no longer move,
   While Christ is all the world to me,
   And all my heart is love.
                         Charles Wesley
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition

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Well, for a hymn that only occurs in a little over 200 hymnals, this one is sure a mess. The Methodist hymnal from 1989 inserts these verses between verse 1 and 2, and doesn't have verses 3 and 4:

2. O that in me the sacred fire
   might now begin to glow;
   burn up the dross of base desire
   and make the mountains flow!

3. O that it now from heaven might fall
   and all my sins consume!
   Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call,
   Spirit of burning, come!

While the Methodist hymnal from 1917 inserts a verse before their verse 2 and doesn't have our verses 3 and 4:

2 Love can bow down the stubborn neck,
   The stone to flesh convert,
   Soften, and melt, and pierce, and break,
   An adamantine heart.

And Victorious Life Hymns inserts this:

3 Thou, who at Pentecost didst fall,
   Do Thou my sins consume;
   Come, Holy Ghost, for Thee I call;
   Spirit of burning, come,
   Spirit of burning, come.

And, in trying to discover verse 3, I stumbled upon the fact that about 118 more hymnals have it listed under a totally different name, My God, I know I feel thee mine! And it was there, under Cyberhymnal that I discovered our verse 3. Incidentally, Cyberhymnal lists eleven verses! You can go see them there. I'm not going to list them here.
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