Absolute faith, O Lord, I owe
To thee and none beside,
Thine only word and Spirit know
My never-erring guide;
Submission absolute I pay
To no commands but thine;
But taught of thee, rejoice t’ obey
Th’ authority divine.
Absolute faith, O Lord, I owe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Call no man your father.”—[Matt.] xxiii. 9. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 359.
Publishing: Public Domain