The Primitive Church

Verse 1

Christ, from whom all blessings flow, perfecting the saints below, hear us, who your nature share, who your mystic body are.

Verse 2

Join us, in one spirit join, grant us still your help divine; still for more on you we call, you, O Christ, fill all in all.

Verse 3

Move, and animate, and guide: various gifts to each divide; placed according to your will, let us all our work fulfil;

Verse 4

freely may we all agree, touched with loving sympathy; kindly for each other care; every member feel its share.

Verse 5

Love, like death, has all destroyed, rendered all distinctions void; names, and sects, and parties fall; you, O Christ, are all in all.