He is indeed ascended,
The God of our salvation!
The tokens we
Both hear and see
Of Jesus’ exaltation:
Our Spokesman with the Father
By his own proper merit
Hath bought the grace
For all our race,
Hath claim’d the promis’d Spirit.
He is indeed ascended
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Therefore being by the right-hand of God exalted &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 33.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), 288-89.
Publishing: Public Domain