Descending from the mountain

Verse 1
Descending from the mountain
Still thy disciples meet Thee,
With songs of praise Extol thy grace,
With loud hosannas greet thee:
This, this we all acknowledge
Our time of visitation,
And see and own What Thou hast done
For us and our salvation.

Verse 2
Sent from thy Father’s bosom,
Honour, and might, and blessing,
And glory we Ascribe to Thee,
And praises without ceasing:
Jehovah from Jehovah,
Thou art to sinners given;
Thy Spirit seals, Thy peace reveals
Our peace with God in heaven.

Verse 3
Come in thy gracious kingdom
We now by faith adore thee;
But wait to see Thy Majesty,
And all thy heavenly glory:
Thy last triumphant Coming
Shall from the grave deliver;
And then we rise Above the skies,
And praise our King forever.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen &c.’—[Luke 19,] v. 37, 38.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 179-80. An abridged version was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 257.
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