"Saviour, Thy Spirit's power exert, / To seal my pardon on my heart,"

— Wesley, John and Charles


Date
1868
Metaphor
"Saviour, Thy Spirit's power exert, / To seal my pardon on my heart,"
Metaphor in Context
Saviour, Thy Spirit's power exert,
To seal my pardon on my heart,

To' assure me God is reconciled
And owns His dear adopted child,
Received into Thy family,
A member of Thy church and Thee.
Provenance
Searching "seal" 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 Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."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
04/19/2005

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