Hymns · 1762

Sing to the God of faithful love

Details

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

Publisher Farley

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 “I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”—Hosea ii. 14. 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 73.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Hosea 2:6 Hosea 2:14 Matthew 5:4

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Luke 6:21

Lyrics

Verse 1
Sing to the God of faithful love!
His goodness and his truth we prove,
Allur’d into the wilderness; (Hosea 2:14)
Beneath the long-incumbent cloud,
We praise the twofold gift of God,
The joyous, and the patient grace.

Verse 2
Who to his people came unsought,
He hath into the desart brought, (Hosea 2:14)
And fenc’d us round with sacred thorn, (Hosea 2:6)
Reprov’d our unbelieving haste,
And given our humbled souls to taste
The blessedness of all that mourn. (Matt. 5:4, Luke 6:21)