Stupendous miracle of love!
Archangels cannot tell me how
I live by thee, my life above,
As by the living Father thou!
But sure as thee thro’ faith I eat,
Thy Spirit’s substance I receive,
And one with my mysterious meat
Thro’ all eternity shall live.
Stupendous miracle of love!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so, he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”—[John] vi. 57. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 390.
Publishing: Public Domain