Religion

Acts 2:32: Our Saviour and Head

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)

Religion

Our Saviour and Head
Is return'd from the dead,
His witnesses we
Declare Him alive, who expired on the tree:
The' omnipotent power
Of our God did restore
His crucified Son,
And received Him again to a share of His throne.
His Spirit attests
The truth in our breasts;
The Witness and Seal
And the rapturous earnest of heaven we feel.
We acknowledge the prayer
Of our Advocate there,
Who the Comforter gives,
And Himself in His people eternally lives.
86. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, Grc.—il 36.

Let the whole house of Israel know
Jehovah hath extoll'd His Son,
That Jesus crucified below
Who laid the general ransom down,
His Father hath supremely magnified
And raised Him up to sit in triumph at His side.

All power He to the Man hath given,
That ye may surely know and praise
The glorious Lord of earth and heaven,
Sublime in majesty and gra e,
Him Prophet, Priest, and King with rapture own,
And shout your God restored to His eternal throne.

Jesus, if Thou the faith impart,
Assured we of Thy Godhead are,
We find Thee praying in our heart,
We hear our heavenly Teacher there,
Thy partners in celestial places sit,
And reign with the Most-High — adoring at Thy feet.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 2:32: Our Saviour and Head.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6177/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 2:32: Our Saviour and Head.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6177/.

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