He leap’d the fatal ditch, where all
Our death-devoted race must fall!
Who once so fondly wish’d to die,
He went, not downward, to the sky,
And shew’d the way by heaven design’d
To save our whole translated kind.
He leap’d the fatal ditch, where all
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”—[II. Kings] ii. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 186.
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