When people and priest

Verse 1
When people and priest, United in prayer
Their faithful request Together prefer,
With Jesus’ oblation The heavens assail;
Their joint supplication Is sure to prevail.

Verse 2
His sacrifice pleads, His prevalent blood
Brings down on our heads The blessings of God:
Our Priest is before him; And join’d to our Lord,
In Christ we adore him, By angels ador’d.

Verse 3
Our incense of prayer Thou offer’st alone,
Thou, Saviour, dost bear Our souls to the throne;
On thine intercession We gladly depend
For grace and salvation, And life without end.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense.’—[Luke 1,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 102.
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