When the sacramental cup
We faithfully receive,
Glad partakers of our hope,
By Jesus’ death we live:
Feel the covenant-blood applied,
And testify, from sin set free,
Saviour of the world, he died
A sacrifice for me.
When the sacramental cup
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This cup is the new testament in my blood which is shed for you.'—[Luke 22,] v. 20.” 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 284.
Publishing: Public Domain