Fill’d with the Spirit of holiness
One family is join’d
With all the tongues of earth to praise
The Saviour of mankind;
Earnest of the whole world, employ’d
In their own tongues to sing,
In season due, th’ incarnate God,
The saints eternal King.
Fill’d with the Spirit of holiness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 4.” 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 143.
Publishing: Public Domain