Religion

Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 4

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity (1767) · Osborn ed., vol. 7 (1870)

Religion

To— " All ye that pass by"

Three persons there are
Their record who bear,
And Jehovah in heavenly places declare:
But in Father, and Son,
And Spirit made known,
The Witnesses three are essentially one.

Full credence we give,
And exult to believe ceive:
What our reason in vain would aspire to con-
Not against, but above
Our reason we prove
Three persons reveal'd in the essence of Love.

The Father alone
Very God will we own,
Very God will we worship the Spirit and Son:
Each person is He,
Whom believing we see,
And Jehovah adore in the wonderful three.

No distinction we find
Of will or of mind
In the Maker, Inspirer, and Friend of mankind;
But one God we proclaim
In nature and name
Indivisibly one, and for ever the same.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 4.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1936/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 4.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1936/.

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