Saturday, January 28, 2023

A beautiful hymn on the Lord's Supper

 

Charles Wes­ley, Hymns on the Lord’s Sup­per 1745, num­ber 57.


Music: Bar­na­bas adapt­ed from the French Psal­ter, 1561



O the depth of love divine,

Th’unfathomable grace!

Who shall say how bread and wine

God into us conveys!

How the bread His flesh imparts,

How the wine transmits His blood,

Fills His faithful people’s hearts

With all the life of God!


Let the wisest mortals show

How we the grace receive;

Feeble elements bestow

A power not theirs to give.

Who explains the wondrous way,

How through these the virtue came?

These the virtue did convey,

Yet still remain the same.


How can spirits heavenward rise,

By earthly matter fed,

Drink herewith divine supplies

And eat immortal bread?

Ask the Father’s wisdom how:

Christ who did the means ordain;

Angels round our altars bow

To search it out, in vain.


Sure and real is the grace,

The manner be unknown;

Only meet us in Thy ways

And perfect us in one.

Let us taste the heavenly powers,

Lord, we ask for nothing more.

Thine to bless, ’tis only ours

To wonder and adore.

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