No: with God they greatly live

No: with God they greatly live
A life on earth unknown,
Now the glorious end receive
Of faith in Abraham’s Son;
Prophets, patriarchs fulfil’d
Th’ anticipated word of grace,
Saw their Lord in part reveal’d,
And now they see his face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said the Jews, Abraham is dead and the prophets.’—[John 8,] v. 52." 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 434.
Publishing: Public Domain