Hurricanes the ship defies

Verse 1
Hurricanes the ship defies,
If Thou art in the ship,
Swiftly toward the haven flies,
And bounds along the deep!
Saviour, in thy church appear,
Give all our hearts thy voice to know,
Then redeem’d from sin and fear
We to perfection go.

Verse 2
Borne upon the wings of love,
We in thy Spirit’s might,
Swiftly to our Center move
And urge our rapid flight:
Life is in a moment o’re,
While all thy saints of Thee possest
Reach with shouts the happy shore,
And on thy bosom rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.’—[John 6,] v. 21." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 380.
Publishing: Public Domain