Religion

Desiring to Love: Another

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742) · Osborn ed., vol. 2 (1869)

Religion

O Love Divine, what hast Thou done!
The' immortal God hath died for me!
The Father's co-eternal Son
Bore all my sins upon the tree;
The' immortal God for me hath died!
My Lord, my Love is crucified!

Behold Him, all ye that pass by,
The bleeding Prince of Life and Peace!
Come, see, ye worms, your Maker die,
And say, was ever grief like His?
Come, feel with me His blood applied:
My Lord, my Love is crucified!

Is crucified for me and you,
To bring us rebels near to God;
Believe, believe the record true:
We all are bought with Jesu's blood;
Pardon for all flows from His side;
My Lord, my Love is crucified!

Then let us sit beneath His cross,
And gladly catch the healing stream,
All things for Him account but loss,
And give up all our hearts to Him;
Of nothing speak or think beside,
"My Lord, my Love is crucified!"

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Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Desiring to Love: Another.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/179/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Desiring to Love: Another.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/179/.

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