Faithful and merciful High Priest

Verse 1
Faithful and merciful High-priest,
Supreme in power and love Divine,
While underneath thy wings we rest,
We in thine intercession join:
Saviour, Thou dost thy dying care
To every age alike extend,
And by the virtue of thy prayer
Thy church is kept, till time shall end.

Verse 2
Faith thro’ the Apostolic word
The faith of thine elect we feel;
The Holy Ghost, my God and Lord
Thee in my heart doth now reveal;
I know my interest in thy blood,
My pardon seal’d I now receive,
Thy death hath brought my soul to God,
And trusting in thy death, I live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.’—[John 17,] v. 20." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 56.
Publishing: Public Domain