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Mark 6:42: They did all eat, and were Ji! led, &c
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Many eat, but are not fiU'd
With manna from above,
In all outward knowledge skill'd,
Yet destitute of love:
Without faith the word they read,
Without grace receive the sign,
Take the sacramental bread,
But not the life Divine.
But if Christ the bread impart,
The grace to each divide,
Every true believer's heart
Is fill'd and satisfied:
Fill'd, we hunger still, for love
For larger tastes of heavenly grace,
Till we share the feast above,
The sight of Jesus' face.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 6:42: They did all eat, and were Ji! led, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4762/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 6:42: They did all eat, and were Ji! led, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4762/.
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