Sing we to our God above, saved by His unwearied Love

Verse 1
Sing we to our GOD above
Sav’d by His unwearied Love,
Kept throughout the Fiery Hour
Let us shew forth all His Power.

Verse 2
Join with me the Heavenly Quires,
Praise Him, praise Him in the Fires,
There He walks with You, and me;
See Him, in the Furnace see!

Verse 3
Lo! th’ Incarnate GOD appears!
Know Him by the Form He wears,
Wears for Us, and not in vain,
Son of GOD, and Son of Man.

Verse 4
Tempted Souls your Lord descry,
Still in your Temptation nigh,
Sin is nigh, but Christ is nigher,
Bids us walk unhurt in Fire.

Verse 5
Jesus doth with Us remain;
Satan heat thy Forge again,
Seven times hotter than before;
Jesus stays till all is o’re.

Verse 6
He doth by His Presence arm,
Sin and Satan cannot harm,
Flames their Burning Power forget,
Quench’d by Jesus’ Bleeding Feet.

Verse 7
Jesus holds us by the Hand,
Cover’d by His Power we stand,
Stand, and walk, and run, and fly,
Sin, the World, and Hell defy.

Verse 8
All their banded Powers we dare;
Faith the Fiery Test shall bear,
Shine, as Gold, when fully tried,
More than seven times purified.

Verse 9
Senseless now of all it’s Heat,
We shall soon the Furnace quit,
Unconsum’d, unhurt appear,
Free from Sin and Satan here.

Verse 10
Sin could not (we then shall shew)
Hurt the Souls that Jesus know,
Could not ev’n our Cloaths impair,
Could not singe a Single Hair.

Verse 11
Far from all the Smell of Fire,
We shall then to Heaven aspire,
Live on Earth like Those above
Perfected in Sinless Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The Fiery Trial.” Wesley included this hymn in his ca. 1743-45 manuscript “MS Clarke.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/561, box 2). 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 246.
Publishing: Public Domain