"And stamp in perfect peace and power / Thine image on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles


Date
1868
Metaphor
"And stamp in perfect peace and power / Thine image on my heart"
Metaphor in Context
Jesus, Thou say'st I shall receive
  The thing for which I pray;
Then give me, Lord, Thy Spirit give,
  And take my sins away:
That I may never grieve Thee more,
  Thy blessed Self impart,
And stamp in perfect peace and power
  Thine image on my heart.

Provenance
Searching "stamp" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley for Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."
Date of Entry
04/07/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.