Abundant grace indeed
On the first saints bestow’d!
From every selfish temper freed
Their hearts with love o’reflow’d:
Who suffer’d none to lack,
Their fruits of grace were shown,
Their mutual love for Jesus’ sake
Declar’d they all were one
By the same strength of grace
And cordial charity,
Produc’d in every age and place
The same effects must be:
And thus, ye sons of light,
Thus only can ye prove
The length, and bredth, and depth, and height
Of truly perfect love.
Abundant grace indeed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Great grace was upon them all.”—[Acts 4,] v. 33. 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 297.
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