Whom Jacob once in Bethel found, (Gen. 28:10-19, Hosea 12:4)
We too have found the Lord,
Have heard his voice of mercy sound,
His reconciling word;
Where first we felt the sprinkled blood, (Lev. 16:14-15, Heb. 10:22, Heb. 12:24)
And saw our sins forgiven,
This is, we cried, the house of God,
This is the gate of heaven! (Gen. 28:16-17)
Whom Jacob once in Bethel found
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.”—[Hosea] xii. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 80.
Publishing: Public Domain