O’erwhelm’d with blessings from above

O’rewhelm’d with blessings from above,
Father, before we taste
These freshest tokens of thy love,
We thank thee for the past:
Our eyes and hearts to heaven we lift,
And taught by Jesus, own
That every grace and every gift
Descends from Thee alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Looking up to heaven, he blessed &c.’—[Matt. 14,] v. 19.” 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 282.
Publishing: Public Domain