Then shall I in the Word abide,
Establish’d and confirm’d in grace,
Thy promise to the utmost tried
With firm fidelity embrace,
And know the Truth, as I am known,
With God most intimately one.
Then shall I in the Word abide
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’—[John 8,] v. 32." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 242.
Publishing: Public Domain