Wesley, John and Charles

1766. Descending from Thy Father's throne [from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

"Thou cam'st to execute His will, / The souls peculiarly Thine own / To bless, and sanctify, and seal"

I came down from heaven . . . to do . . . the will of, &c.

--vi. 38.

Descending from Thy Father's throne,
  Thou cam'st to execute His will,
The souls peculiarly Thine own
  To bless, and sanctify, and seal;
And raise whoe'er His voice obey,
Thy saints triumphant in that day.

Writing::Sealing

Searching "seal" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)

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 Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."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