God who on Sinai’s top came down

God who on Sinai’s top came down
The law of fear t’ ingrave in stone,
Returns all-gracious from above
To teach mankind the law of love,
And by his Spirit’s power imparts,
And writes it on his people’s hearts.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the day of Pentecost was fully come &c.’—[Acts 2, v. 1.]” 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