Peace to the house I enter now!

Verse 1
Peace to the house I enter now!
If sent with thy commission, Thou
Shalt answer, Lord, for me,
Peace to the son of peace impart,
Set up thy kingdom in his heart,
Thro’ faith which is in Thee.

Verse 2
In bliss assur’d, and pardon seal’d
Now let him find thy word fulfill’d,
Of present heaven possest;
Thyself in him and his reveal,
Thyself in every bosom dwell,
Our everlasting Guest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When ye come into an house, salute it, saying, Peace be unto this house.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 12.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 235.
Publishing: Public Domain