Lord, Thy testamental will

Verse 1
Lord, thy Testamental Will
Is ratified by God,
Seal’d by thy own Spirit’s seal,
And written in thy blood:
Trusting, sharing in thy death
To us thy life shall all be given,
Us to whom thou dost bequeath
Th’ inheritance of heaven.

Verse 2
As his only Son and Heir
Thou challengest thine own,
Askest that thy church may share
Thine everlasting throne,
Praying in thy proper right,
Thou dost for us demand the grace,
The beatifying Sight
Of thy own glorious face.

Verse 3
Head and members, Christ intire
We must together be,
In the bosom of thy Sire,
And glorified with Thee:
Thee, before the world began,
And us He did as thine approve,
Chosen in the Son of man
By his eternal love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Father, I will they also whom Thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.’—[John 17,] v. 24." 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 59.
Publishing: Public Domain