We claim the promise, Lord, for ours!
O that his soul with all its powers
Might silent in thy presence fall,
And feel the blood which flow’d for all,
Asham’d to speak, afraid to move,
Lost in astonishment and love!
We claim the promise, Lord, for ours
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The kings shall shut their mouths at him.”—[Isa.] lii. 15. 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 439.
Publishing: Public Domain