Scripture Verse

I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring. Isaiah 44:3

Introduction

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Henry More (1614–1687)

Words: Hen­ry More, Di­vine Dia­logues with Di­vine Hymns 1668. These words come from the lar­ger hymn, When Christ His Bo­dy Up Had Borne. John Wes­ley ex­tract­ed this por­tion for the 1780 Wes­ley Hymn Book.

Music: Church Tri­um­phant James W. El­li­ott, 1874 (🔊 pdf nwc).

Alternate Tune:

  • Abbotsford Ca­tho­lische geist­liche Ge­sänge (An­der­nach Ger­ma­ny: 1608) (🔊 pdf nwc)

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of El­li­ott (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

On all the earth Thy Spir­it show­er;
The earth in right­eous­ness re­new;
Thy king­dom come, and hell’s o’er­pow­er,
And to Thy scep­ter all sub­due.

Like migh­ty winds, or tor­rents fierce,
Let it op­pos­ers all o’er­run;
And ev­ery law of sin re­verse,
That faith and love may make all one.

Yea, let Thy Spir­it in ev­ery place
Its rich­er en­er­gy de­clare;
While love­ly tem­pers, fruits of grace,
The king­dom of Thy Christ pre­pare.

Grant this, O ho­ly God and true!
The an­cient seers Thou didst in­spire;
To us per­form the pro­mise due;
Descend, and crown us now with fire!