Father, if justly still we claim

Father, if justly still we claim. John Wesley* (1703-91), adapted from Henry More* (1614-1687). More’s hymn, beginning ‘When Christ his body up had born’ [sic.], was published in his Divine Hymns (added to the Second Edition of his Divine Dialogues, 1668), where it was entitled ‘An Hymn Upon the Descent of the Holy Ghost at the Day of Pentecost’. Wesley used More’s text to make a hymn of 15 verses, published in his Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), entitled ‘On the Descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. Altered from Dr. H. More’. The first five stanzas told the story of the first Pentecost: MoreWesley 1. When Christ his body up had born To Heav’n from his Disciples sight, Then they like...