Jesu, to Thee in faith we look

Verse 1
Jesu, to thee in faith we look,
O that our services might rise
Perfum’d and mingled with the smoke
Of thy sweet-smelling sacrifice.

Verse 2
Thy sacrifice with heavenly powers
Replete, all-holy, all-divine,
Human and weak, and sinful ours;
How can the two oblations join?

Verse 3
Thy offering doth to ours impart
Its righteousness and saving grace,
While charg’d with all our sins thou art,
To death devoted in our place.

Verse 4
Our mean imperfect sacrifice
On thine is as a burthen thrown,
Both in a common flame arise,
And both in God’s account are one.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 328.
Publishing: Public Domain