Master Thee, we call and Lord,
Performing what we say
When our lives fulfil thy word,
And when our hearts obey:
O that thus we always might
Ourselves thy true disciples prove
Find, like Thee, our whole delight
In works of humble love.
Master Thee we call, and Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye call me Master, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.’—[John 13,] v. 13." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 504.
Publishing: Public Domain