O thou who camest from above

O thou who camest from above. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762), the fourth hymn in a series of twenty-one on Leviticus, mostly of a single stanza each but including also ‘A charge to keep I have’*. It was in two 8-line stanzas, prefaced by the text ‘The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar, it shall never go out. — vi.13.’: O Thou who camest from above,  The pure, celestial fire t’ impart,Kindle a flame of sacred love  On the mean altar of my heart;There let it for thy glory burn  With inextinguishable blaze,And trembling to it’s Source return,  In humble prayer, and fervent praise. Jesus, confirm...

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