Happy saint, so quickly driven

Verse 1
Happy saint, so quickly driven
From the flesh by violent pain
Here enjoy the sight of heaven,
Here behold the Son of Man,
Jesus waiting
To receive thy soul again!

Verse 2
Lo, He stands with arms extended,
(Risen from his dazling throne)
Sees his servant’s warfare ended,
Sends the flaming chariot down
Smiles triumphant,
Reaches out the palm and crown!

Verse 3
Every confessor and servant
Who of Jesus testifies,
Faithful unto death and fervent
Shall obtain the victor’s prize,
See his Saviour,
Grasp him thro’ the opening skies.

Verse 4
If Thou call ev’n us to inherit
Joys for martyr’d saints prepar’d,
Thou wilt fill us with thy Spirit,
Pledge of that supreme reward;
Sinking, dying,
We shall view our heavenly Lord.

Verse 5
Thou wilt set Thyself before us,
Standing in the holiest place,
God omnipotently glorious
We shall on thy brightness gaze,
Gaze transported
On thy beatific Face.

Verse 6
Jesus, to our supplication
In that final hour attend,
To the God of our salvation
While our spirits we commend;
Then receive us,
Crown’d with bliss which ne’er shall end!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But he being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God &c.’—[Acts 7,] v. 55, 56.” This hymn 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 216.
Publishing: Public Domain