Christian Classics

John & Charles Wesley · 254 of 258

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Christ, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the below, Hear us, who Thy Nature share, Who Thy mystic body are: Join us, in one spirit join, Let us still receive of Thine; Still for more on Thee we call, Thee, who fittest all in all.

Closer knit to Thee our Head, Nourish us, O Christ, and feed; Let us daily growth receive, More and more in Jesus live: Jesu! we Thy members are, Cherish us with kindest care; Of Thy flesh and of Thy bone, Love, for ever love Thine own.

Move, and actuate, and guide, Diverse gifts to each divide: Placed according to Thy will, Let us all our work fulfil; Never from our office move, Needful to the others prove; Use the on each bestow’d, Temper’d by the art of God.

Sweetly now we all agree, Touch’d with softest sympathy, Kindly for each other care: Every member feels its share: Wounded by the grief of one, All the suffering members groan; Honour’d if one member is, All partake the common bliss.

Many are we now, and one, We who Jesus have put on: There is neither bond nor free, Male nor female, Lord, in Thee. Love, like death, hath all destroy’d, Render’d all distinctions void: Names, and sects, and parties fall; Thou, O Christ, art all in all!