Religion
Luke 23:47: The earliest fruits of bleeding love
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Religion
The earliest fruits of bleeding love
Not in a Scribe or Jew appear,
But Jesus' death hath power to move
A heathen's heart with pious fear:
A soldier owns His righteousness
Whom priests and elders crucify.
And teaches us our God to bless,
Who man became for man to die.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 23:47: The earliest fruits of bleeding love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5421/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 23:47: The earliest fruits of bleeding love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5421/.
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