Divided tongues of fire

Verse 1
Divided tongues of fire
The burning Spirit express,
Who doth his messengers inspire,
And gives his word success:
Active as darted flame
It flies with rapid speed,
As lightning, with resistless aim
It strikes the sinner dead.

Verse 2
That Fire inflames the heart,
Expands and spreads within,
Severs the pure and drossy part,
And burns up all our sin;
It consecrates the soul
A living sacrifice,
And offers up the saint a whole
Burnt-offering to the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 3.” It 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 142.
Publishing: Public Domain