Religion

Numbers 9:18: Who in Thy word confide

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Who in Thy word confide.
From nature's haste set free,
Our patient souls by faith abide.
And fix their eyes on Thee:
Till Thou Avouldst have us go.
We wait Thy Spirit's sign;
And cannot lose our time, we know,
By tarrying, Lord, for Xhine.

To work for God is good,
If God our work ordain;
But stay'd by the incumbent cloud,
We in our place remain:
To cease from work is best.
If after Jesu's will;
For when at His command we rest,
We please our Saviour still.

Saviour, we wait the day.
The awful day unknown.
To quit our house, this tent of clay,
To lay our bodies down;
Expecting from above
The certain sign we stand.
As ready always to remove.
And die at Thy command.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Numbers 9:18: Who in Thy word confide.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2577/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Numbers 9:18: Who in Thy word confide.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2577/.

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