Thou who once didst shake the place

Verse 1
Thou who once didst shake the place
Where praying saints were met,
Spirit of faith and holiness,
The miracle repeat;
Shake our souls, and stir them up
To seize the crown prepar’d above,
Fill with confidence of hope,
And purity of love.

Verse 2
Power to every messenger,
And ready utterance give,
That we boldly may declare
The Name thro’ which we live,
Preach the reconciling Word
Who did his peace to all bequeath,
Followers of our lamblike Lord,
And faithful unto death.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “And when they had prayed, the place was shaken &c.”—[Acts 4,] v. 31. 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 180.
Publishing: Public Domain