To all the souls He owns for his
Our Master graciously imparts
An antepast of heavenly bliss,
A glimpse of glory in our hearts:
And thus prepar’d for grief and loss,
We die with Jesus on the cross.
To all the souls He owns for His
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun &c.’—[Matt. 17,] v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 305.
Publishing: Public Domain