Children of God, thro’ Jesu’s love,
We rise undoubted heirs;
His rich inheritance above
He with his brethren shares;
His glorious joy, his full reward
We surely shall obtain,
If following our afflicted Lord,
We die with Christ to reign.
Children of God, through Jesu’s love
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And if children then heirs, &c.”—[Rom.] viii. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 13.
Publishing: Public Domain