Thee Jesus, and Thy church below

Verse 1
Thee, Jesus, and thy church below
In David and his house we see:
The souls which sin did once o’rethrow
Shall they not rise restor’d by Thee?
Surely Thou wilt thy house repair
And fix thy constant presence there.

Verse 2
We look for our returning Lord,
To raise the nations from their fall:
Thou wilt, according to thy word,
In pardning grace appear to all,
Visit the whole apostate race,
And stir them up to seek thy face.

Verse 3
The heathens still thy creatures are,
Blind children of a God unknown,
Thy work, their Maker’s name they bear,
Whose blood did for their sins atone:
And those who bear the Christian sign,
Heathens baptiz’d, are doubly thine.

Verse 4
Come then, and claim thy property,
Thou Friend and Lover of mankind,
Let every soul be found in Thee,
In Thee his great Restorer find,
That all our ransom’d world may own,
The Saving work is all thine own!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David &c.’—[Acts 15,] v. 16, 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 304.
Publishing: Public Domain