Author, Prince of lasting peace

Verse 1
Author, Prince of lasting peace,
Us thy ransom’d spirits bless,
Make us thro’ thy grace alone
One of twain, for ever One:

Verse 2
One in will, and heart, and mind,
Each for each by heaven design’d,
One with perfect harmony,
Spiritually one in Thee.

Verse 3
Take us both into thy hand
Subjected to thy command,
Pleas’d thy easy yoke to prove,
Happy in our Saviour’s love.

Verse 4
Shed it in our hearts abroad,
Speak us reconciled to God,
Then we to each other cleave,
Then in heaven on earth we live.

Verse 5
Happy in each other then,
We shall by our lives explain
Love’s sublimest mystery,
Union of thy Church and Thee:

Verse 6
Every word and act shall show
How Thou lovst thy Church below,
Folded in thy kind embrace
How the Church her Head obeys.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Hymn for an Husband and Wife.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), pages 281-82.
Publishing: Public Domain