Ascending to be cloath’d upon
With purest robes of heavenly light,
(Robes that outshine the noon-day sun)
He drops his mantle in his flight!
Divested of mortality
He needs it not to wrap his face,
Allow’d his God unveil’d to see,
And strong to bear the glorious blaze!
Ascending to be cloth’d upon
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He took up the mantle that fell from him.”—[II. Kings] ii. 13. 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 188.
Publishing: Public Domain