God hath on us His Spirit bestowed

Verse 1
God hath on us his Spirit bestow’d,
That we his other gifts may know,
A pardon bought with Jesus blood,
A taste of glorious bliss below:
The Spirit our conscience certifies
That God to man hath freely given
Wine without money, without price,
Forgiveness, holiness, and heaven.

Verse 2
The Comforter assures our hearts,
Our Father to his children dear
Fresh strength continually imparts
To fight, o’recome, and persevere:
Our Father gave to Christ alone
Fulness of grace, and heavenly powers;
But hath on us confer’d his Son,
And Christ, and all in Christ is ours.

Verse 3
Yet God doth not his Spirit give
To nourish self-exalting pride,
That all, the moment they receive
His grace, may know his grace untried;
Nicely the Spirit’s work explain,
Or boast their faith, before they prove,
Or counting every measur’d grain,
Tell all the world how much they love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We have received the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.’—[1 Cor.] 2:12.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. The entire hymn was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 460-61. The first two verses were 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 24.
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