Father, how kind thou art,
To ask my evil heart!
But yet thou dost; and I
Have found the reason why:
Thou want’st to make it good,
By washing it in blood,
And then to reign alone
Upon thy favourite throne.
Father, how kind Thou art
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “My son give me thine heart.”—[Prov.] xxiii. 26. 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 352.
Publishing: Public Domain