On all the earth thy Spirit shower
On all the earth thy Spirit shower. John Wesley* (1703-1791) adapted from Henry More* (1614-1687).
This hymn consists of the last four stanzas of a hymn of fifteen stanzas by John Wesley, based on one by Henry More beginning ‘When Christ his body up had born’ [sic.], published in More’s 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’. For the first part of Wesley’s hymn (eleven stanzas) see ‘Father, if justly still we claim’*.
The last four stanzas adapted More’s text as follows:
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On all the earth thy Spirit pour, In righteousness it to renew: That Satan’s...
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