When the Spirit Thou bestow’st

Verse 1
When the Spirit thou bestow’st,
Our indwelling Comforter,
Temples of the Holy Ghost,
We, O God, thy temples are:
Full of confidence divine
Feels our heart its heavenly guest:
Thou art come into thy shrine:
Here, O God, for ever rest.

Verse 2
By his residence below
In this weak corporeal frame,
Thee we with thy Spirit know
Co-essentially the same:
With thy Son and Spirit One,
Father, bid thy temples rise,
Shine, when time its course hath run,
Blaze eternal in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “'The TEMPLE of GOD is holy, which temple are YE.'—1 Cor. iii. 16. 'Know ye not, that YOUR BODIES are the TEMPLE of the HOLY GHOST?'—1 Cor. vi. 19.” Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity (Bristol: William Pine, 1767). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 251.
Publishing: Public Domain