A few compendious words

Verse 1
A few compendious words
Religion’s whole contain,
By faith I am the Lord’s,
By faith I his remain,
In hope I serve his blessed will,
And all his law in love fulfil.

Verse 2
The creature of my God
By Him in being held,
The purchase of his blood,
To Christ his right I yield,
His, wholly his rejoice to be,
Who made, preserves, and died for me.

Verse 3
Jesus, thine own defend,
Fill up my faith and hope,
And loving to the end
Receive thy servant up,
And for the work thyself hast done
Reward with an eternal crown.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whose I am, and whom I serve.’—[Acts 27,] v. 23." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 439.
Publishing: Public Domain