While I hang upon thy passion

While I hang upon thy passion
Peace, and power in Thee I have,
Author now of my salvation,
Thou shalt to the utmost save:
Govern’d by the life of love
Freely in thy paths I move;
Thus constrain’d, a true believer
Must obey, and live for ever.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him.’—[Heb.] 5:9.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 470.
Publishing: Public Domain