Jesus, united by thy grace
And each to each endeared,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.

Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thine easy yoke,
A band of love, a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.

Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptise into thy name;
And let us always kindly think
And sweetly speak, the same.

Touched by the lodestone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,
And ever t'ward each other move,
And ever move t'ward thee.

To thee, inseparably joined,
Let all our spirits cleave;
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive.

This is the bond of perfectness,
Thy spotless charity;
O let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee.


Charles Wesley (1707-88)