Fain would I, Lord, my houshold lead
In all the paths of righteousness,
And train them up, an holy seed,
To serve thy will, and spread thy praise:
Implant in me the patriarch’s mind,
My sacred cares and toils approve,
And bless the church I leave behind,
The children of my faith and love.
Fain would I, Lord, my household lead
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I know him, that he will command his children and his houshold after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord.”—[Gen.] xviii. 19. 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 19.
Publishing: Public Domain