Who wait in view of gospel-peace

Verse 1
Who wait in view of gospel-peace,
Sum of all the promises,
Thy Spirit to receive,
Howe’er impatient nature fret,
A time to God we will not set,
Or teach Thee when to give.

Verse 2
Thou bid’st us patiently attend,
Till the Comforter descend
Thy Father’s Gift, and thine;
And all, who for thy coming stay,
Shall gain in that appointed day
Th’ abiding Guest Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.’—[Acts 1,] v. 4.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 285.
Publishing: Public Domain