Come Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/ Honour the means...
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/ Honour the means... Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
This is No. 182 from Volume II of Charles Wesley’s Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the book published under his own name with John Wesley*’s approval. This hymn was headed ‘At the Baptism of Adults’. It had six stanzas:
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Honour the Means Injoin’d by Thee, Make good our Apostolic Boast And own thy Glorious Ministry.
We now thy Promis’d Presence claim, Sent to disciple All Mankind, Sent to baptize into thy Name: We now thy Promis’d Presence find.
Father, in These reveal thy Son, In These for whom we seek thy Face, The hidden Mystery make known, The Inward, Pure,...
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