Thy church, O God, shall find fulfill’d

Thy church, O God, shall find fulfill’d
Thy sure prophetic word,
The Branch, the man divine, shall build
The temple of the Lord:
The temple of the Lord are these
Who still in Christ abide,
’Till rais’d to perfect righteousness,
And wholly sanctified.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The man whose name is The Branch, he shall build the temple of the Lord.”—[Zech.] vi. 12. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 116.
Publishing: Public Domain