As truth His record we receive

Verse 1
As truth his record we receive,
And Christ the one great God believe
The uncreated Word,
The only true and living Way
Which leads us to eternal day,
The Vision of our Lord.

Verse 2
The innocent, atoning Lamb,
Who from his Father’s bosom came
We faithfully embrace;
Assur’d, his blood for all he shed,
And rose victorious from the dead,
A sinful world to raise.

Verse 3
His Spirit in our hearts hath seal’d
The word on which our faith we build,
The word of truth and love,
And Christ, th’ eternal Life, we know
Was manifested here below
That we may reign above.

Verse 4
Fountain of life and light Divine,
We comprehend thy love’s design,
Thy confessors increase,
The truth we live to ratify,
And witnessing the truth, we die
In everlasting peace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.’—[John 21,] v. 24." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 131.
Publishing: Public Domain