Greater than ancient Israel, we
With open face his glory see,
And God more intimately nigh
Doth now our every want supply,
The Spirit of his Son imparts,
And prays himself in all our hearts.
Greater than ancient Israel, we
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “What nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for!”—[Deut.] iv. 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 92.
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