Our true and faithful Lord

Verse 1
Our true and faithful Lord
Spake the prophetic word,
First to his Apostles spake,
Then to all the ransom’d kind,
All may now the grace partake,
All the promis’d Spirit find.

Verse 2
What the prediction meant
We learn by its event,
Gentile, Jew, and all our race
May the truth of Jesus prove,
Born again their Lord embrace,
Sons of God by faith and love.

Verse 3
The pure baptismal Fire
Shall me, ev’n me inspire
I from my own works shall cease,
I the Spirit’s birth shall know,
Live the life of holiness,
Perfect holiness, below.

Verse 4
Come holy, hallowing Flame,
And plunge me in thy Name!
Partner of thy nature then,
Then I live, and sin no more,
All the promises obtain,
Lost in silent love adore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.’—[Acts 11,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 256.
Publishing: Public Domain