"Father, Son, and Spirit enter, / Seal my soul for ever Thine!"

— Wesley, John and Charles


Place of Publication
London
Date
1772
Metaphor
"Father, Son, and Spirit enter, / Seal my soul for ever Thine!"
Metaphor in Context
If Thou hast in mercy caught me,
  Thee that I may apprehend,
If to this Thyself hast wrought me,
  That I may to heaven ascend,
Draw me now into my Centre;
  Into Thy ambitious shrine,
Father, Son, and Spirit enter,
  Seal my soul for ever Thine!

Provenance
Searching "soul" and "seal" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
04/19/2005

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