Author of life divine

General information

Author of life divine is a hymn by Charles Wesley. It was published on p. 30 of Charles and John Wesley's Hymns on the Lord's Supper, Bristol: Farley, 1745, as 'Hymn XL'.

Settings by composers

• Clifford Boyd SATB File not found on external site
• Chris Dell SATB
• Henry Lawes SATB
• John Stainer SATB
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley SATB

Text and translations

English text

Author of life divine, Who hast a table spread, Furnish'd with mystick wine And everlasting bread, Preserve the life thyself hast given, And feed, and train us up for heaven.

Our needy souls sustain With fresh supplies of love, Till all thy life we gain, And all thy fulness prove, And strength'ned by thy perfect grace, Behold without a veil thy face.

 

External links

• Hymns on the Lord's Supper, Bristol: Farley, 1745, description and transcription by the Duke Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition