By Thy example, Lord

Verse 1
By thy example, Lord,
Shew us Thyself the Way;
The Truth by thy own word
Into our hearts convey;
The Life by thy own grace bestow,
And then in Thee our God we know.

Verse 2
The Way to God Thou art;
O might I walk in Thee:
The Truth, thy light impart,
And make thy servant free:
The Life of grace, Thyself reveal,
And then my soul with glory fill.

Hymnal/Album: Verse 2 was introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Originally titled “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”—[John] xiv. 6. Wesley later expanded this hymn, adding a first verse, in his 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 5.
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