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Luke 9:20: Peter answering said. The Christ of God
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Thou art the Christ of God
On all mankind bestow'd,
Thee the co-eternal Son
By the' anointing Spirit seal'd,
Prophet, Priest, and King we own,
Man with all the Godhead fill'd.
The Spirit of our Head
Is on the members shed:
Ever streaming from above
He to us Thy name imparts,
Brings the unction from above.
Forms and dwells in Christian hearts.
Thy mystic body we
Our all receive from Thee,
Life and truth, and grace for grace;
Thine anointed ones we rise.
Temples of Thy holiness,
Fill'd with Him who fills the skies.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 9:20: Peter answering said. The Christ of God.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5165/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 9:20: Peter answering said. The Christ of God.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5165/.
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