Our Saviour and Head

Verse 1
Our Saviour and Head
Is return’d from the dead,
His witnesses, we
Declare Him alive, who expir’d on the tree:
Th’ omnipotent power
Of our God did restore
His crucified Son,
And receiv’d him again to a share of his throne.

Verse 2
His Spirit attests
The truth in our breasts;
The Witness, and Seal,
And the rapturous Earnest of heaven we feel:
We acknowledge the prayer
Of our Advocate there,
Who the Comforter gives,
And himself in his people eternally lives.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.’—[Acts 2,] v. 32.” It 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 150.
Publishing: Public Domain