Author of faith, the grace impart,
The sure foundation lay,
By sprinkling with thy blood my heart,
And bless me from this day,
Bless me with faith, and faith’s increase,
With hope and purest love,
With true, consummate holiness,
And with a throne above.
Author of faith, the grace impart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “From this day will I bless you.”—[Hag.] ii. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 110.
Publishing: Public Domain