Earth shall then with love o’er-flow,
While perfectly restor’d
Every soul delights to know
That glory of the Lord:
Christ his glorious image is;
As all mankind at once shall prove,
Swallow’d up in the abyss
Of his eternal love.
Earth shall then with love o’erflow
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”—[Isa.] xi. 9. 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 387.
Publishing: Public Domain