Type of Christ, the servant gains
Power from heaven to raise the dead,
Power the Son himself ordains,
Lord of life, and fountain-head!
“Maid,” the Saviour saith, “Arise!”
With divine authority,
“Lazarus, come forth,” he cries,
“Find thy life deriv’d from me!”
Type of Christ, the servant gains
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He prayed unto the Lord.”—[II. Kings] iv. 33. 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 191.
Publishing: Public Domain