Author of faith, implant in me

Verse 1
Author of faith implant in me
That root of immortality,
That never-failing root,
Whence every grace and virtue grow;
And then th’ eternal life bestow,
The ripe celestial fruit.

Verse 2
But if in me reveal’d Thou art,
I have the Earnest in my heart,
The Witness and the Seal:
Come then mine unbelief remove,
And by the Spirit of life and love
In me forever dwell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.’—[John 6,] v. 47." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 387.
Publishing: Public Domain