"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"

— Wesley, John and Charles


Place of Publication
Bristol
Publisher
Printed by E. Farley
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
Metaphor in Context
I will make a new covenant, &c.

--viii. 8.

Engraven on my heart and mind,
O that I could Thy precepts find,
  Begotten from above
,
The nature contrary to sin,
The' essential righteousness brought in,
  The perfect law of love.

The law of glorious liberty,
When wilt Thou, Lord, impart to me?
  My soul divinely pure,
Again in holiness create,
Restore me to my first estate,
  And make the covenant sure?

Thy covenant of redeeming grace
Stablish with all the faithful race,
  Eternally forgiven.
Redeem'd from inward pravity,
In every point conform'd to Thee,
  And take us up to heaven.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1762, 1796).

See Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, 2 vols. (Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>

Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."
Date of Entry
03/08/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.