Added to the chosen seed

Added to the chosen seed
The moment we believe,
All who truly hold the Head
Will to the members cleave:
Many, Lord, yet one in Thee,
(If Thou our common Saviour art)
From each others company
Nor life nor death can part.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude.’—[Acts 17,] v. 4." 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 328.
Publishing: Public Domain