What my gracious Saviour spoke

What my gracious Saviour spoke
Is for my good design’d;
All recorded in his book
I still would bear in mind,
Every sacred word retain
Which yet I cannot rightly know
Till my Lord himself explain,
And all his counsel show.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.'—[Luke 2,] v. 51.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 123.
Publishing: Public Domain