Jesus, thy Father’s child I am,
Who made me by thy powerful word:
Me for thine own vouchsafe to claim,
The work, the purchase of my Lord:
Thou didst redeem me by thy blood,
That Thee my soul may glorify,
And triumph in a dying God,
And spread thy praise thro’ earth and sky.
Jesus Thy Father’s child I am
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘[John 17,] Verse 10." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 63.
Publishing: Public Domain