Jesu, we look to thee

Jesu, we look to thee. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Volume II of Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol, 1749), in four 8-line DSM stanzas. A few words were altered and the last stanza was omitted when the hymn was included in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780). The 1749 text was as follows:   Jesus, we look to Thee,  Thy promis’d Presence claim,Thou in the midst of Us shalt be  Assembled in thy Name:  Thy Name Salvation is,  (Which now we come to prove)Thy Name is Life, and Joy, and Peace,  And everlasting Love.   Not in the Name of Pride,  Or Selfishness we meet, From Nature’s Paths we turn aside,   And worldly Thoughts...

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