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Be this my one great business here, With serious industry and fear, Eternal bliss to ensure: Thine utmost counsel to fulfil, And suffer all thy righteous will, And to the end endure. Then Saviour, then, my soul receive, Transported from this vale to live And reign with thee above; Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight, And everlasting love.
Be this my one great business here, With serious industry and fear, Eternal bliss to ensure: Thine utmost counsel to fulfil, And suffer all thy righteous will, And to the end endure. Then Saviour, then, my soul receive, Transported from this vale to live And reign with thee above; Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight, And everlasting love.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Wesley (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 6 · printed citation: Wesley · subject: ABOVE
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