The Breath of Christ, that Spirit is

Verse 1
The Breath of Christ, that Spirit is!
Saviour, to me the gift impart,
To purge my sin, and seal my peace,
Thy Spirit breathe into my heart;
Ah, give me now the chast desire,
The spotless love and purity,
With all that holiness inspire,
With all that mind which was in Thee.

Verse 2
Thou didst inspire his mortal frame,
Thou didst the breath of lives bestow,
And man a living soul became,
The portraiture of God below:
Thou dost inspire the life of grace
And as a second soul confer
The holy Ghost on all our race,
The saints eternal Comforter.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He breathed on them.”—[John] xx. 22. Verse 1 was introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Wesley later altered this verse and added a second verse 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.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 107.
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