Being of beings, God of Love, to Thee our hearts

Verse 1
Being of beings, God of love,
To thee our hearts we raise;
Thy all-sustaining pow’r we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.

Verse 2
Thine, wholly thine we pant to be,
Our sacrifice receive;
Made, and preserv’d, and sav’d by thee,
To thee ourselves we give.

Verse 3
Heav’nward our ev’ry wish aspires:
For all thy mercy’s store
The sole return thy love requires,
Is that we ask for more.

Verse 4
For more we ask, we open then
Our hearts t’ embrace thy will:
Turn and beget us, Lord, again,
With all thy fulness fill!

Verse 5
Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour’s love
Shed in our hearts abroad;
So shall we ever live and move,
And be, with Christ, in God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Grace After Meat." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 34.
Publishing: Public Domain