Religion

Job 19:25–27: I CALL the world's Redeemer mine

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

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

Religion

I CALL the world's Redeemer mine:
He lives who died for me, I know,
Who bought my soul with blood Divine,
Jesus shall re-appear below,
Stand in that dreadful day unknown,
And fix on earth His heavenly throne.

T/ien the hst judgment-day shall come,
And though the worms this skin devour,
The Judge shall call me from my tomb.
Shall bid the greedy grave restore,
And raise this individual me,
God in the flesh my God to see.

In this identic body I,
With eyes of flesh refined, restored,
Shall see that self-same Saviour nigh,
See for myself my smiling Lord,
See with ineftable delicrht.
Nor faint to bear the glorious sight.

Then let the worms demand their prey,
The greedy grave my reins consume,
With joy I drop my mouldering clay,
And rest till my Redeemer come.
On Christ my Life, in death rely,
Secure that I can never die.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Job 19:25–27: I CALL the world's Redeemer mine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3123/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Job 19:25–27: I CALL the world's Redeemer mine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3123/.

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