Who now his flesh and blood partake,
Partakers of the life Divine,
We soon shall see our Lord come back
His members all in one to join;
And feeding on this living Bread,
This earnest of my endless bliss,
I too shall rise to meet my Head
I too shall see him as He is.
Who now His flesh and blood partake
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”—[John] vi. 54. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 390. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 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.
Publishing: Public Domain