Call’d after Thee I am

Call’d after thee I am,
And thou my Saviour art,
And thro’ the virtue of thy name
I now from sin depart:
Thus may I always tell
That I, O Christ, am thine,
And bear throughout my life the seal
And character divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.”—[2 Tim.] ii. 19. 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 107.
Publishing: Public Domain