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 | CHAPTER XI. The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley |  |
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[Happy the men who first partook]
The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
—xi. 26.
Happy the men who first partook
The name and nature of their Lord!
They all iniquity forsook,
And God in spirit and truth adored.
What they were call'd, they were indeed.
Anointed with Jehovah's power,
His children by His Spirit led,
And born of God they sinn'd no more.
The name and nature of their Lord!
They all iniquity forsook,
And God in spirit and truth adored.
What they were call'd, they were indeed.
Anointed with Jehovah's power,
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And born of God they sinn'd no more.
But millions now with lips profane
The venerable name assume,
And dead in sins, confess in vain
That Jesus in the flesh is come:
The form of godliness they have,
The power, the unction they deny,
And will not let the Saviour save,
But heathens live, and heathens die.
The venerable name assume,
And dead in sins, confess in vain
That Jesus in the flesh is come:
The form of godliness they have,
The power, the unction they deny,
And will not let the Saviour save,
But heathens live, and heathens die.
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