Jesus in earth and heaven the same

Verse 1
Jesus, in earth and heaven the same,
Accept a parent’s vow,
To Thee, baptiz’d into thy name
I bring my children now:
Thy love permits, invites, commands
My offspring to be blest:
Lay on them, Lord, thy gracious hands,
And hide them in thy breast.

Verse 2
To each thy hallowing Spirit give
Ev’n from their infancy,
And pure into thy church receive
Whom I devote to Thee:
Committed to thy faithful care,
Protected by thy blood,
Preserve by thine unceasing prayer,
And bring them all to God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them.’—Matt. 19, v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 322.
Publishing: Public Domain