To Zion’s sacred top

Verse 1
To Zion’s sacred top
Unwearied let us press,
And build each other up
In faith and holiness,
And praying in the Spirit prove
The depth and height of purest love.

Verse 2
The grace with Christ bestow’d
Thus only we retain,
Nearer approach to God,
And all his image gain,
But hang on his mere mercy still,
’Till wafted to the heavenly hill.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “But, ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, &c.”—[Jude] 20, 21. 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 217.
Publishing: Public Domain