Spirit of Truth descend

Verse 1
Spirit of truth descend,
And with thy church abide,
Our Guardian to the end,
Our sure, unerring Guide,
Us into the whole counsel lead
Of God reveal’d below,
And teach us all the truth we need
To life eternal know.

Verse 2
Whate’er Thou hear’st above
To us with power impart,
And shed abroad the love
Of Jesus in our heart:
One with the Father and the Son
Thy record is the same;
O make in us the Godhead known
Thro’ faith in Jesus name.

Verse 3
To all our souls apply
The doctrine of our Lord,
Our conscience certify,
And witness with the word,
Thy realizing light display,
And shew us things to come,
The after-state, the final day,
And man’s eternal doom.

Verse 4
The Judge of quick and dead,
The God of truth and love,
Who doth for sinners plead
Our Advocate above:
Exalted by his Father there
Thou dost exalt below,
And all his grace on earth declare,
And all his glory shew.

Verse 5
Sent in his name Thou art,
His work to carry on,
His Godhead to assert,
And make his mercy known:
Thou searchest the deep things of God,
Thou know’st the Saviour’s mind,
And tak’st of his atoning blood
To sprinkle all mankind.

Verse 6
Now then of his receive,
And shew to us the grace,
And all his fulness give
To all the ransom’d race;
Whate’er he did for sinners buy
With his expiring groan,
By faith in us reveal, apply,
And make it all our own.

Verse 7
Descending from above,
Into our souls convey
His comfort, joy, and love,
Which none can take away,
His merit, and his righteousness
Which makes an end of sin;
Apply to every heart his peace,
And bring his kingdom in.

Verse 8
The plenitude of God
That doth in Jesus dwell,
On us thro’ Him bestow’d
To us secure and seal:
Now let us taste our Master’s bliss,
The glorious heavenly powers,
For all the Father hath is His,
And all He hath is ours.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "John xvi. 13, 14, 15." Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is more likely than not that Charles wrote it but not certain. Introduced in Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving For the Promise of the Father, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1746). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 191. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 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.
Publishing: Public Domain