But the Antitype much more
Did the living words receive,
Words of energy and power,
Words which cause the dead to live:
Jesus, God’s supreme Delight,
Thou hast heard his words above;
On the fleshly tables write,
Teach our hearts the law of love.
But the Antitype much more
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Moses received the lively oracles, to give unto us.’—[Acts 7,] v. 38.” This hymn 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 213.
Publishing: Public Domain