Father Thou hast our hearts inclined

Verse 1
Father, Thou hast our hearts inclin’d,
Or we had never sought thy Son,
We still thy powerful drawings find,
And cannot rest in grace begun;
Till Thou thine own desires fulfil,
And Jesus in our hearts reveal.

Verse 2
To this, O God, Thou hast us wrought
That now we might thy Son confess,
Led by preventing grace and taught
Add us to Jesus witnesses,
Command the light of faith to shine,
And fear gives place to love divine.

Verse 3
His Spirit send, to seal us his,
As members of his body here,
Joint heirs of everlasting bliss,
That when he doth with clouds appear,
We all may to his joy succeed,
And reign triumphant with our Head.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me, draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.’—[John 6,] v. 44." This hymn appears in the 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 386.
Publishing: Public Domain