"And doth even now His peace impart, / And stamps His image on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles


Date
1868
Metaphor
"And doth even now His peace impart, / And stamps His image on my heart."
Metaphor in Context
Thy faith hath made thee whole.

--xvii. 19.

Jesus commends the faith in me
Which heals my sinful leprosy,
That I may praise the grace of God
Who faith and its effects bestow'd,
And doth even now His peace impart,
And stamps His 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 Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."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.