Sent from the heavenly Father down

Verse 1
Sent from the heavenly Father down,
Thou cam’st to make the Godhead known,
The mysteries divine t’ impart,
And speak his words into my heart:
That Spirit I in measure feel
Who doth the things of God reveal,
Fathoms the depths of Deity,
And dwells with all his grace in Thee.

Verse 2
The words Thou dost from God declare
Pure life, and quickning spirit are,
Their own divinity they prove,
Th’ eternal Truth, and Power, and Love:
Our penetrated hearts agree
Never was man that spake like Thee,
God over all the Speaker own,
And seat thee on thy fav’rite throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.’—[John 3,] v. 34." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 225-26. Verse 2 was 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 351.
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