As I have believed, O Lord

As I have believ’d, O Lord,
It shall be done to me,
Sav’d by trusting in thy word,
From all iniquity;
Freed from sin’s tormenting pain,
When re-begotten from above,
I shall in thyself regain
The perfect health of love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 212.
Publishing: Public Domain