What victims doth our God demand?
Not thoughtless beasts, or bodies slain:
Ourselves before thine altar stand,
The reasoning souls of living men;
Our bodies too, thro’ Christ thy Son,
An holy sacrifice we give,
And serve, and please our God alone,
And only for thy glory live.
What victims doth our God demand
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is, your reasonable service.”—[Rom.] xii. 1. 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 16.
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