Religion

Matthew 12:50: Jesus, was ever love like Thine

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Jesus, was ever love like Thine!
Thy life a scene of wonder is.
Thy death itself is all Divine,
While, pleased Thy spirit to dismiss,
Thou dost out of the flesh retire,
And, like the Prince of Life expire!

Thy death supports the dying saint:
Thy death my sovereign comfort be!
While feeble flesh and nature faint,
Arm with Thy mortal agony,
And fill, while soul and body part,
With life, immortal life, my heart.

O let Thy death's mysterious power
With all its sacred weight descend.
To consecrate my final hour.
To bless me with Thy peaceful end;
And breathed into the hands Divine
My spirit be received with Thine!

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 12:50: Jesus, was ever love like Thine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4609/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 12:50: Jesus, was ever love like Thine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4609/.

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