Rent by Thy expiring groan

Rent by thy expiring groan
The temple’s vail I see,
Rent the flesh Thou didst put on,
Eternal God, for me:
Viewing now the heavens thrown wide,
I to my Father’s house repair,
Boldly enter thro’ thy side,
And claim a mansion there.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The vail of the temple was rent in twain.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 51.” 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 432.
Publishing: Public Domain