Author of our faith, we look

Verse 1
Author of our faith, we look
For stronger faith to Thee,
Bless us, thou eternal Rock
With thy stability:
Stedfast, and unmoveable,
We then shall in thy love remain
Never faint, and never fail,
And never sin again.

Verse 2
Kept by thine almighty hand
We our Supporter own
Humbly, confidently stand,
Till perfected in one,
Stand, till with thy saints in light
We see Thee pompously descend,
Stand, till faith improve to sight
And grace in glory end.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Stand fast in the faith.’—[1 Cor.] 16:13.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 41.
Publishing: Public Domain