At length the time is quite fulfilled

Verse 1
At length the time is quite fulfil’d,
The moment come, when God had will’d
To manifest his Son,
Jehovah, in the temple seen,
Begins t’ instruct the sons of men,
And make the Godhead known.

Verse 2
The Christ foretold by ancient seers,
The Lord in his own house appears,
To teach, and not declaim,
To answer all his love’s design,
And with authority Divine
Declare his Father’s name.

Verse 3
By thy example, Lord, repress
Our ministerial forwardness,
And teach us when, and where,
And how our office to fulfil,
And the whole counsel of thy will
Before the world declare.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.’—[John 7,] v. 14." 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 400.
Publishing: Public Domain