After He hath sent his Son
He doth his Spirit send;
Who the benefits unknown
Can fully comprehend?
Him in whom the Spirit dwells
With all his grace and boundless power
When in us our God reveals,
Our God can give no more!
After He hath sent His Son
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘On my handmaids [servants’ and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit.’—[Acts 2,] v. 18.” It 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 147.
Publishing: Public Domain