Christian piety sincere
Our social love commends:
Paul injoy’d the comfort here
The converse of his friends;
Both his countenance and zeal
He sharpen’d by the pleasing sight,
Travelling on to meet, and dwell
With all the saints in light.
Christian piety sincere
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When he had landed at Cesarea, and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.’—[Acts 18,] v. 22." 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 352.
Publishing: Public Domain