Lift up your hearts to things above
Lift up your hearts to things above. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), volume II: it was no. 55 of a series of ‘Hymns for Christian Friends’. It had twelve 4-line stanzas. In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists it was printed in five 8-line stanzas, switching the order of 9 and 10, and omitting the original stanzas 3 and 8:
3. Our Bosom-Friend, and Brother too,
Our Husband, and our Head,
Who all He bids delight to do,
And in his footsteps tread.
8. Surely we Now your Souls embrace,
With you we Now appear
Present before the Throne of Grace,
And You, and Christ is...
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