Cloath’d in our flesh and blood,
Saviour, thou didst fulfil
The holy righteous law of God,
And answer all his will:
And we shall do the same,
Begotten from above,
Fill’d with the virtues of thy name,
Inspir’d with purest love.
Clothed in our flesh and blood
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”—[Matt.] iii. 15. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 148.
Publishing: Public Domain