The Lord doth in his Son delight,
Doth us for Jesu’s sake approve,
Our faith is pleasing in his sight
Productive of obedient love:
And all who thus in him believe,
Already with the earnest blest,
God unto them the land shall give,
The gracious, and the glorious rest.
The Lord doth in His Son delight
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us.”—[Num.] xiv. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 75.
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