When the Spirit and the word
Conspire in part to show
The good pleasure of our Lord,
We with his message go,
Ready to perform his will,
Ourselves we to the chariot join,
Still intent, and waiting still
To know his whole design.
When the Spirit and the word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.’—[Acts 8,] v. 29.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 322.
Publishing: Public Domain