The laying on of hands implies,
That God asserts his lawful claim,
Possession takes, and sanctifies
The men baptiz’d into his name;
Subjecting them to his commands,
Uniting to himself, He still
Keeps them in his own gracious hands,
To serve the counsels of his will.
The laying on of hands implies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the holy Ghost.’—[Acts 8,] v. 17.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 319.
Publishing: Public Domain