The’ unfathomable mystery

Verse 1
Th’ Unfathomable mystery!
Let others ask, how can it be:
Th’ imperishable meat
Which Thou to all wou’dst freely give,
With prostrate reverence we receive,
Thy sacred flesh we eat.

Verse 2
The Fountain of my life, and Head,
The Victim dying in my stead,
That I thy life may know,
Thyself, in various ways design’d
To quicken me and all mankind,
Thou dost on all bestow.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’—[John 6,] v. 52." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 389.
Publishing: Public Domain