Wesley, John and Charles

2297. If Thou ordain the minister. [from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

"The truth we in Thy name assert, / And our report Thy Spirit seals / In pardon on the faithful heart."

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted, &c.

--xx. 23.

If Thou ordain the minister
  His word doth guilty souls release,
Doth with authority declare
  The' appointed terms of gospel peace;
The poor self-desperate sinner feels
  The truth we in Thy name assert,
And our report Thy Spirit seals
  In pardon on the faithful heart.

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 Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."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