The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans 5:5
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems (London: Strahan, 1739), page 36.
Music: Barford James S. Geikie (1811–1883), in Old Scottish Psalm Tunes (London: Bayley & Ferguson, 1908), number 11 (🔊 pdf nwc).
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Being of beings, God of love;
To Thee our hearts we raise;
Thy all sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing Thy praise.
Thine, holly Thine, we pant to be;
Our sacrifice receive;
Made, and preserved, and saved by Thee,
To Thee ourselves we give.
Heav’nward our every wish aspires,
For all Thy mercy’s store;
The sole return Thy love requires,
Is that we ask for more.
For more we ask, we open then
Our hearts t’embrace Thy will:
Turn and revive us, Lord, again,
With all Thy fullness fill.
Come, Holy Ghost, the Savior’s love
Shed in our hearts abroad;
So shall we ever live, and move,
And be, with Christ, in God.