The kingdom promis’d and foreshow’d
By legal types and ancient seers,
The church, the hierarchy of God
Establish’d now on earth appears;
And sinners, sav’d for Jesus sake,
May all into the kingdom press,
Its glory, power, and joy partake,
And seize the crown of righteousness.
The kingdom promised and foreshowed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The law and the prophets were until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.’—[Luke 16,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 159.
Publishing: Public Domain