Jesu, united by Thy grace

Verse 1
Jesu, united by thy grace,
And each to each endear’d,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.

Verse 2
Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thy[1] easy yoke,
A band of love, a threefold cord
Which never can be broke.

Verse 3
Make us into one spirit drink,
Baptise into thy name,
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the same.

Verse 4
Touch’d by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,
And ever towards each other move,
And ever move towards thee.

Verse 5
To thee inseparably join’d,
Let all our spirits cleave,
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive.

Verse 6
This is the bond of perfectness,
Thy spotless charity,
O let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee.

Verse 7
Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remove;
Our souls their change shall scarcely know,
Made perfect first in love.

Verse 8
With ease our souls thro’ death shall glide
Into their paradise,
And thence on wings of angels ride
Triumphant thro’ the skies.

Verse 9
Yet when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in heaven
Our all in all is love.

[1] Wesley changed “thy” to “thine” in 1745, but returned to “thy” in following editions.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1742). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 2 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 138.
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