Author of faith, on me confer

Verse 1
Author of faith, on me confer
The all-obtaining grace,
Which wrestles, and receives in prayer
Thy largest promises;
The faith unfeign’d and unreprov’d
Which can the test abide,
From false humility remov’d,
And self-deluding pride.

Verse 2
A perfect confidence inspire
From all presumption free,
An holy boldness to desire
The thing prepar’d for me;
A wisdom to discern and know
The time by God design’d,
A strength that will not let thee go,
Till I the blessing find.

Verse 3
Impower me by thy Spirit within
To bid the weight depart,
The mountain of Adamic sin
To drive out of my heart:
I trust thee in due season, Lord,
My nature to remove,
And by thine own Almighty word
Renew my soul in love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove.’—[Matt. 17,] v. 20.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 310.
Publishing: Public Domain