Happy he, whose wickedness
Is cover’d and forgiven!
In the kingdom of thy grace
He eats the bread of heaven:
In thy dazling realms above
He soon shall live supremely blest,
Banquet on thy richest love,
The saints eternal feast.
Happy he, whose wickedness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.'—[Luke 14,] v. 15.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 149-150.
Publishing: Public Domain