Thro’ the pure evangelic word
Thine image, Lord, on us impress,
And speak us after God restor’d
In true internal holiness:
Thy word the channel of thy love
Thro’ meek and patient faith apply,
And fit us for the joys above,
And take us spotless to the sky.
Through the pure evangelic word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘[John 17,] Verse 17." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 64.
Publishing: Public Domain