Religion true to visit earth
In pure divinity descends,
But mindful of its heavenly birth,
To heaven in all its motions tends;
Returning to its blest abode,
It mingles with the chrystal Sea,
It bears my spirit back to God,
My God thro’ all eternity.
Religion true to visit earth
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’—John 4, v. 14." 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 356.
Publishing: Public Domain