By Boaz, yet divinely, taught,
Father, we for our servants pray,
Let all their works in thee be wrought,
Thee let them still in us obey,
And find, partakers of the Lord,
In life and death their full reward.
By Boaz yet divinely, taught
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Boaz said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you.”—[Ruth] ii. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 145.
Publishing: Public Domain