1 Rock of Israel, cleft for me,
For us, for all mankind,
See, thy feeblest followers see
Who call thy death to mind:
Sion is the very land;
Us beneath thy shade receive,
Grant us in the cleft to stand,
And by thy dying live.
2 In this howling wilderness,
On Calvary's steep top,
Made a curse our souls to bless
Thou once was't lifted up;
Stricken there by Moses' rod,
Wounded with a deadly blow;
Gushing streams of life o'erflow'd
The thirsty world below.
3 Rivers of salvation still
Along the desert roll,
Rivers to refresh and heal
The fainting sinking soul;
Still the fountain of thy blood,
Stands for sinners open'd wide,
Now, e'en now, my Lord, and God,
I wash me in thy side.
4 Now, e'en now we all plunge in,
And drink the purple wave,
This the antidote of sin,
'Tis this our souls shall save:
With the life of Jesus fed,
Lo! from strength to strength we rise,
Follow'd by our Rock, and led
To meet him in the skies.
Source: A Pocket Hymn Book: designed as a constant companion for the pious, collected from various authors (9th ed.) #CCXXIV
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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