Religion
Acts 13:46: Who now His work revives
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Who now His work revives
In these apostate days,
Invites professors first, and gives
To you the word of grace:
Into your churches sent
With news of sin forgiven
We preach the kingdom near; repent,
Believe, and enter heaven.
If harden'd ye remain,
Refuse by faith to live,
The gift of righteousness disdain
Which God would freely give;
Ye wilfully refuse
The life of glory too;
And know, ye grace rejecting Jews,
There is no heaven for you.
Embolden' d through the name
Which speaks salvation sure,
Our call we follow, and proclaim
The gospel to the poor;
Repulsed by you we know.
And guided by His will,
To the highways and hedges go,
And thus our charge fulfil:
The sons of wickedness
The slaves of open sin,
Outcasts and vagabonds we press,
And force them to come in:
And lo from sin released
Heathens obey the call,
Baptized, or unbaptized they feast
With Him who died for all.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 13:46: Who now His work revives.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6430/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 13:46: Who now His work revives.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6430/.
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