There is no fear in love

There is no fear in love,
No base tormenting fear,
But that which thrills the host above,
When Jesu’s wounds appear!
The highest joy transcends
To saints triumphant given,
The seraph’s loftiest songs suspends,
And makes a silent heaven!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There is no fear in love.”—[1 John] iv. 18. 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 208.
Publishing: Public Domain