Wesley, John and Charles

2151. With milk Thou dost the infants feed. [from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

"Repeating on our hearts He seals, / The truths in their epistles taught"

Those many things at first unknown,
  Thy Spirit shows us where to find
Not by tradition handed down,
  By men corrupt, deceitful, blind:
The acts by Thine apostles wrought
  Repeating on our hearts He seals,
The truths in their epistles taught,
  And in the mystic book reveals.

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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 Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."

04/19/2005