Thou earnest from above

Verse 1
Thou camest from above
The fire of heavenly love
Over all the earth to spread:
Good and gracious as Thou art,
Now thy loving Spirit shed,
Now inflame my longing heart.

Verse 2
Answer thine own design,
And let one spark divine
From that sacred altar come
Kindled once on Calvary,
All my sins by love consume,
Hallow all my soul to Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I am come to send fire on the earth! And what do I desire? That it were already kindled.'—[Luke 12,] v. 49.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 215.
Publishing: Public Domain