Truth of the legal sacrament,
He was the manna which he sent:
And daily still to Israel given,
The living bread comes down from heaven,
That mortals who thro’ faith receive,
By Christ eternally may live.
Truth of the legal sacrament
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.”—[Exod.] xvi. 15. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 47.
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