Every one that asks shall have

Every one that asks shall have,
And he that seeks shall find
Christ omnipotent to save
Our whole apostate kind:
Christ the Door shall be thrown wide,
That all who knock may enter in,
Shelter’d in his bleeding side
Beyond the reach of sin.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For every one that asketh, receiveth &c.’—[Luke 11,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 128.
Publishing: Public Domain