How happy the pair, Whom Jesus unites

Verse 1
How happy the pair,
Whom Jesus unites
In friendship to share
Angelic delights,
Whose chast conversation
Is coupled with fear,
Whose sure expectation
Is holiness here!

Verse 2
My Jesus, my Lord,
Thy grace I commend
So kind to afford
My weakness a friend!
Thy only good-pleasure
On me hath bestow’d
An heavenly treasure,
A servant of God.

Verse 3
Appointed by thee,
We meet in thy name,
And meekly agree
To follow the Lamb,
To track thy example,
The world to disdain,
And constantly trample
On pleasure and pain.

Verse 4
Rejoicing in hope
We humbly go on,
And daily take up
The pledge of our crown,
In doing and bearing
The will of our Lord,
We still are preparing
To meet our reward.

Verse 5
The heavenly prize
Is ever in view,
’Till both shall arise,
Created anew;
That first resurrection
We pant to attain,
Go on to perfection,
And suffer to reign.

Verse 6
O Jesus, appear,
No longer delay
To sanctify here,
And bear us away:
The end of our meeting
On earth let us see,
Triumphantly sitting
In glory with thee.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 2, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 5 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 427.
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