God of all good gifts the Donor

Verse 1
God of all good gifts the donor,
God, whose mercies never end,
Thee with lips and heart I honour,
Bless thee for my darling friend,
Thankful at thy hands receiving,
Ever longing to fulfil
All thy wise design in giving,
All my Father’s welcome will.

Verse 2
If for this th’ uniting Spirit
Hath on me his burthen laid,
Give me joyfully to bear it,
Him with all my prayers to aid:
Fill my heart with supplication,
Let in me thy bowels move,
Softness of divine compassion,
Tenderness of heavenly love.

Verse 3
Sanctify our mutual care,
More and more let it increase,
Strengthen us hereby to share
Every tempted soul’s distress:
Stir us up to toil unceasing,
Lay on both the common load,
Make our love a general blessing,
Turn it all to Sion’s good.

Verse 4
While with just peculiar kindness
We each other’s souls embrace,
Save us from that doting blindness,
Fatal to our fallen race;
From the mean contracting passion
Keep us free, and unconfin’d,
Raise our generous inclination,
Fix our love on all mankind.

Verse 5
As a wide-extended river,
Let thy love our hearts o’erflow,
Purest love that lasts for ever,
Reaching every soul below;
Love that doth with free election
Some beyond the rest approve,
Bless us with thy whole affection,
Special, universal love.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 2, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 5 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 425.
Publishing: Public Domain