The church in her militant state
Is weary, and cannot forbear,
The saints in an agony wait
To see him again in the air,
The Spirit invites in the bride
Her heavenly Lord to descend,
And place her inthron’d at his side
In glory that never shall end.
The church in her militant state
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Spirit and the bride say, Come.”—[Rev.] xxii. 17. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 239.
Publishing: Public Domain