1 While we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
2 Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
3 Still, O Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, O make us meet for thee;
4 Every vile affection kill,
Root out every seed of ill,
Utterly abolish sin,
Write thy law of love within.
5 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know;
Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
6 Love, thine image, love impart,
Stamp it now on every heart;
Only love to us be given;
Love, the crowning grace of heaven.
Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1028
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 >| First Line: | While we walk with God in light |
| Title: | Love-feast |
| Author: | Charles Wesley |
| Meter: | 7.7.7.7 D |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
While we walk with God in light. Part of “Partners of a glorious hope," noticed on p. 244, i. 5.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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