Gifts extraordinary bestow’d

Verse 1
Gifts extraordinary bestow’d,
On them that first believed,
Powers miraculous from God
Are rarely now received:
True and faithful as Thou art,
We yet thy promis’d Spirit claim:
Every fearful sinner’s heart
May still expect the same.

Verse 2
Still the Holy Ghost descends
Th’ indwelling Comforter,
All the griefs and troubles ends
Of those that Christ revere;
Works his miracles within,
Renews their hearts, and tongues, and eyes,
Makes an utter end of sin
And wholly sanctifies.

Verse 3
Always ready Thee we know
This gospel-truth to seal:
Saviour, now on us bestow
The Gift unspeakable,
In the Comforter come down,
(Who helps us for Himself to pray)
Take possession of thine own,
And here forever stay.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Holy Ghost fell on them, and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.’—[Acts 19,] v. 6." 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 357.
Publishing: Public Domain