Religion

Luke 4: But Jesus bleeding on the tree

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

But Jesus bleeding on the tree
Completes His glorious victory,
And gives the mortal blow.
Full of the Holy Ghost He comes,
Provokes the fiend, nor yet presumes
Who in Himself confides,
By the almighty Spirit led:
Who all that in His footsteps tread
To certain conquest guides.

O THOU whom God vouchsafes to' inspire,
Born from above, baptized with fire,
Fill'd with the joy of grace,
Stand to thy arms, nor rest secure:
The Spirit shall thy soul allure
Into the wilderness.

Prepare to meet thy hellish foe,
But trusting in thy Captain, go
To final victory.
Thy Captain first the fight maintain'd,
And by His own temptation gain'd
The conquering power for thee.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Luke 4: But Jesus bleeding on the tree.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5054/.

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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 4: But Jesus bleeding on the tree.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5054/.

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