Flesh out of his flesh we are,
And bone out of his bone,
Who the heavenly nature share
Of God’s most holy Son;
God doth now our hearts impress,
Made soft, yet firm, like his above,
Fill’d with all the tenderness,
And all the strength of love.
Flesh out of His flesh we are
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We are members of his body, out of his flesh, and out of his bones.” (Gr.)—[Eph.] v. 30. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 76.
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