While to the temple we repair

Verse 1
While to the temple we repair,
The house of truth as well as prayer,
God in the means injoin’d,
Instructor of the faithful race,
God in the ministers of grace,
And at his feast we find.

Verse 2
Daily he doth his people teach,
The gospel of salvation preach,
The news of sin forgiven,
While Jesus his own word applies,
Comes in his Spirit from the skies,
And bears our souls to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He taught daily in the temple.’—[Luke 19,] v. 47.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 181.
Publishing: Public Domain