Lord, with open heart and ear
We would thy law receive,
All thy gracious sayings hear
And savingly believe,
All thy kind commands obey,
The pattern trace which thou hast given,
Walk in Thee, the Truth, the Way,
The Life, and Heaven of heaven.
Lord with open heart and ear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.’—[Acts 3,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 166.
Publishing: Public Domain