Hymns · 1762

Christ, whose glory fills the skies, that famous plant Thou art

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Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

Publisher Farley

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Notes Originally titled “I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more, &c.”—[Ezek.] xxxiv. 29, 30. 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 56.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Ezekiel 34:29-30

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Psalm 19:1 Ephesians 5:27 Philippians 2:5 Colossians 2:7

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Genesis 2:9 Genesis 3:22-24 John 6:35 John 6:51 John 15:4 John 17:21 Romans 6:14 II Corinthians 4:9 Ephesians 3:17 I John 1:3 Revelation 2:7 Revelation 19:7-8 Revelation 22:2 Revelation 22:14

Lyrics

Verse 1
Christ, whose glory fills the skies, (Ps. 19:1)
That famous plant thou art! (Ezek. 34:29)
Tree of life eternal, rise (Gen. 2:9, Gen. 3:22-24, Rev. 2:7, Rev. 22:2, Rev. 22:14)
In every longing heart:
Bid us find the food in thee, (Ezek. 34:29)
For which our deathless spirits pine,
Fed with immortality, (John 6:35, John 6:51)
And fill’d with love divine.

Verse 2
Long we have our burthen borne,
Our own unstableness,
Object of the heathen’s scorn, (Ezek. 34:29, II Cor. 4:9)
Who mock’d our scanty grace:
Jesus, our reproach remove,
Let sin no more thy people shame, (Ezek. 34:29, Rom. 6:14)
Shew us rooted in thy love (Eph. 3:17, Col. 2:7, John 15:4)
Thro’ life and death the same.

Verse 3
In thy sinless people shew
Thy power and constancy,
Give us thus to feel and know
Our fellowship with thee, (Ezek. 34:30, I John 1:3, John 17:21)
Give us all thy mind t’ express, (Phil. 2:5)
And blameless in our Lord t’ abide,
Transcripts of thy holiness,
Thy fair, unspotted bride! (Eph. 5:27, Rev. 19:7-8)