Asking for thy righteousness

Asking for thy righteousness,
I shall the gift receive,
Find the kingdom of thy grace,
And by thy Spirit live;
Entring thro’ the open door,
The holy God I soon shall see,
Praise, when time shall be no more,
The glorious One in Three.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ask, and it shall be given you: Seek &c.’—[Luke 11,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 128.
Publishing: Public Domain