So lately to each other known

Verse 1
So lately to each other known,
What is it draws and makes them one
By dearest ties allied?
What is it binds the saints above
In everlasting bonds? the love
Of Jesus crucified.

Verse 2
Men the divine attraction feel,
Women with joy unspeakable
Th’ uniting grace obtain;
Their children too with heart sincere
Cleave to a parting minister
And all his blessing gain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city.’—[Acts 21,] v. 5." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 382.
Publishing: Public Domain