Anointed, sent from Him,
Saviour, Thou didst fulfil
Thy great commission to redeem,
And do the Father’s will;
Hereby thy heart we know,
Who didst our griefs sustain,
And unto death obedient, show
Thy love for God, and man.
Anointed, sent from Him
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.’—[John 14,] v. 31." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 17.
Publishing: Public Domain