A righteous man who fears

Verse 1
A righteous man who fears
The Saviour out of love,
Doth only live, till Christ appears
His servant to remove:
By Jesus’ Spirit led
He on his Lord attends,
Till Israel’s Comforter and Head
With all his hosts descends.

Verse 2
He first receives Him here,
God’s co-eternal Son,
The Author and the Finisher,
And knows as he is known;
Receives Him from the skies
In plenitude of grace,
By faith embraces him, and dies,
To see his Saviour’s Face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The same man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.'—[Luke 2,] v. 25.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 81.
Publishing: Public Domain