Call’d from above, I rise

Verse 1
Call’d from above, I rise,
And wash away my sin
The stream, to which my spirit flies,
Can make the foulest clean:
It runs divinely clear,
A fountain deep and wide:
T’was open’d by the soldier’s spear
In my Redeemer’s side!

Verse 2
Believing in thy name,
Jesus, thy peace I gain,
And wash’d I every moment am,
And still the grace retain;
In ceaseless prayer to Thee
The life of faith I prove,
And cleans’d from all iniquity
Continue in thy love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Arise, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’—[Acts 22,] v. 16." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 410. Verse 1 was introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Verse 1 was 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 397.
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