Hymns · 1788

Lift up your hearts to things above

Details

Hymnal / album Richmond (manuscript)

Publisher Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled: “Hosea 2:14 &c.” This hymn appears in the mid-1750s manuscript “MS Richmond.” 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 1977/551, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 249.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Hosea 2:14-15

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Colossians 3:1

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Exodus 12:7 Exodus 12:13 Exodus 12:22-23 Exodus 14:30 Exodus 15:1-2 Psalm 23:3 Psalm 30:11 Isaiah 61:2-3 Romans 13:11 Philippians 4:4 Hebrews 10:32 Revelation 1:5 Revelation 2:4-5 Revelation 3:8 Revelation 5:12

Lyrics

Verse 1
Lift up your hearts to things above (Col. 3:1)
Ye Partners in distress,
Allur’d, and brought by Jesus Love
Into the Wilderness. (Hosea 2:14)
With us expect again to hear
His comfortable Voice, (Hosea 2:14)
And feel his great salvation near (Rom. 13:11)
And evermore rejoice. (Phil. 4:4)

Verse 2
From hence He shall our comforts raise,
From hence our vineyards give, (Hosea 2:15)
And by his all-restoring grace
Our drooping souls revive. (Ps. 23:3)
He from the depth of misery
Shall lift his mourners up, (Ps. 30:11, Isa. 61:2-3)
And lo, he gives us now to see
An open door of hope. (Hosea 2:15, Rev. 3:8)

Verse 3
Ev’n now we sweetly call to mind
The former gospel-days, (Heb. 10:32)
The Joy of our First Love we find, (Rev. 2:4-5)
The extacy of grace,
We sing the glories of the Lamb (Rev. 5:12)
And feel his blood applied, (Ex. 12:7, Ex. 12:13, Ex. 12:22-23)
As when we out of Egypt came (Hosea 2:15, Ex. 14:30)
But newly justified.