Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns, Volume 2 (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), number 1422.
Music: Chouteau Bentley D. Ackley, 1910 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
Zechariah 6:12
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns, Volume 2 (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), number 1422.
Music: Chouteau Bentley D. Ackley, 1910 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Thy Church, O God, shall find fulfilled
Thy sure prophetic word:
The Branch, the Man divine, shall build
The temple of the Lord;
The temple of the Lord are these
Who still in Christ abide,
’Till raised to perfect righteousness,
Are wholly sanctified.