"On my heart Thy goodness seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles


Place of Publication
Bristol
Publisher
Printed by E. Farley
Date
1762
Metaphor
"On my heart Thy goodness seal"
Metaphor in Context
The Lord is good unto them that wait, &c.

--iii. 25.

Thee I seek, my pardoning Lord,
  Waits my longing soul for Thee:
O be mindful of Thy word,
  O be merciful to me,
On my heart Thy goodness seal,
  Bid me in Thine image rise,
Mounted on Thy holy hill,
  Ravish'd thence to paradise.
Provenance
Searching "seal" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1762, 1796).

See Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. and Presbyter of the Church of England., 2 vols. (Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, in Small-Street, 1762). <Link to ESTC>

See also Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M. A. And Presbyter of the Church of England. (London: Printed by G. Paramore, North-Green, Moorfields; and sold by G. Whitfield, at the Chapel, City-Road; and at the Methodist preaching-houses in town and country, 1794-96). <Link to ESTC>

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>
Date of Entry
04/19/2005

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