God, who didst so dearly buy

God, who didst so dearly buy
These wretched souls of ours,
Help us thee to glorify
With all our ransom’d powers:
Ours they are not, Lord, but thine;
Let the vessels of thy grace,
Body, soul, and spirit, join
In their Redeemer’s praise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God.”—[1 Cor.] vi. 20. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 31.
Publishing: Public Domain