Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Divine conformity

713 4th P. M. 886, 886.
Divine conformity.

JESUS, fulfil our one desire,
   And spread the spark of living fire
   Through every hallow’d breast:
   Bless with divine conformity,
   And give us now to find in thee
   Our everlasting rest.

2 O that we now the power might feel,
   To do on earth thy blessed will,
   As angels do above: —
   To walk in thee, the Truth, the Way,
   And ever perfectly obey
   Thy sweet constraining love.
                            Charles Wesley
                            Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)

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Not one of his better known hymns. According to hymnary.org it only occurs in nine hymnals. But I like the theology of it, so I'm posting it. : )
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