Moses fasted forty days

Moses fasted forty days,
Nor miss’d his outward food,
Nourish’d by his Maker’s grace,
The partial sight of God:
We shall live compleatly blest,
When face to face our God we see,
On the blissful vision feast
To all eternity.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread nor drink water.”—[Exod.] xxxiv. 28. 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 56.
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