Ah give us, Saviour, to partake

Verse 1
Ah give us, Saviour, to partake
The sufferings, which this emblem shews,
Thy flesh our food immortal make,
Thy blood which in this chanel flows
In all its benefits impart,
And sanctify our sprinkled heart.

Verse 2
For all that joy which now we taste
Our happy hallow’d souls prepare,
O let us hold the earnest fast,
This pledge that we thy heaven shall share,
Shall drink it new with thee above
The wine of thy eternal love.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 295.
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