Bread of God, for Thee I lift
My hungry longing heart,
The true Bread, the Father’s Gift
To all the world Thou art;
Thou bestow’d on all mankind
Dost sinners dead to life restore:
Thee reveal’d by faith we find,
And live for evermore.
Bread of God, for Thee I lift
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.’—[John 6,] v. 33." 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 382.
Publishing: Public Domain