In Thee, O Lord, is all my trust,
When men by speeches fair
Urge me to speak, and seeming just
Would in my words insnare:
To turn the tempter’s tools aside,
Thou wilt my wisdom be,
Thou wilt direct my tongue, and guide
My heart resign’d to Thee.
In Thee, O Lord, is all my trust
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They could not take hold of his words.’—[Luke 20,] v. 26.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 272.
Publishing: Public Domain