But on the day of sacred rest
Above his ancient people blest,
Who call our dying Lord to mind,
We each a double portion find,
Gather the manna from above,
And banquet on his richest love.
But on the day of sacred rest
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “On the seventh day they found none.”—[Exod.] xvi. 27. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 49.
Publishing: Public Domain