Our God the true religion forms
On earth by that above,
And teaches highly favour’d worms
To praise, adore, and love:
The power to do his perfect will
Is with the precept given
And we shall all his mind fulfil
As angels do in heaven.
Our God the true religion forms
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘God spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.’—[Acts 7,] v. 44.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 313.
Publishing: Public Domain