’Tis this essentially divides
The living from the dead,
We know the Lord in us abides,
The Spirit of our head:
O let us in this knowledge grow,
Hold fast the earnest given,
’Till Jesus with himself bestow
The ripest joys of heaven.
Tis this essentially divides
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit, which he hath given us.”—[1 John] iii. 24. 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 207.
Publishing: Public Domain