Sprinkled with th’ atoning blood
By faith divine applied,
Knowingly we worship God
In Jesus pacified,
Inward Jews our Lord confess,
(Whose temples pure our bodies are)
In the Spirit of fervent praise,
And sacrificial prayer.
Sprinkled with the’ atoning blood
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.’—[John 4,] v. 22." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 357.
Publishing: Public Domain