Who knows the joy we feel

Verse 1
Who knows the joy we feel
Solid, and deep, and pure,
Joy inconceivable
Which always shall endure,
When worthy deem’d to suffer shame,
Accounted vile for Jesus name.

Verse 2
Transported we receive
The Apostolic grace,
To Christ more closely cleave,
And triumph in his praise,
Honour the stripes for us he bore,
And Jesus’ bleeding wounds adore.

Verse 3
Th’ ineffable delight
To flesh and blood unknown,
Doth all our souls unite
With those around the throne,
On us the heavenly Spirit rests,
And glory fills our ravish’d breasts.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They departed from the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.’—[Acts 5,] v. 41.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 304.
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