For th’ omniscient’s information
Need we formal prayers repeat?
To excite his slow compassion,
God, the gracious God, intreat?
Lord, our hearts are bare before thee,
Lord, to all thy bowels move;
Help us, for our wants implore thee,
Love us with a Father’s love.
For th’ Omniscient’s information
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.”—[Matt.] vi. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 177.
Publishing: Public Domain