"All my Sins destroy, devour, / And all my Soul transform: / Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal; / O come quickly from above, / Empty me of Self, and fill / With all the Life of Love."
— Wesley, John and Charles
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Strahan
Date
1765
Metaphor
"All my Sins destroy, devour, / And all my Soul transform: / Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal; / O come quickly from above, / Empty me of Self, and fill / With all the Life of Love."
Metaphor in Context
6. Perfect then thy mighty Pow'r
In a weak, sinkful Worm;
All my Sins destroy, devour,
And all my Soul transform:
Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal;
O come quickly from above,
Empty me of Self, and fill
With all the Life of Love.
(p. 52)
In a weak, sinkful Worm;
All my Sins destroy, devour,
And all my Soul transform:
Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal;
O come quickly from above,
Empty me of Self, and fill
With all the Life of Love.
(p. 52)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "seal" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO
Citation
See John Wesley, Hymns for those to whom Christ is All in All. (Bristol: Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street, 1765). <Link to ECCO>
First found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust> [there titled "The Same. O crule power of sin"]
First found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust> [there titled "The Same. O crule power of sin"]
Date of Entry
04/19/2005
Date of Review
09/10/2014
