On earth I ask no more
Than to be rul’d by thee:
Thy kingdom, Lord, restore,
Set up thy throne in me,
Then shall I own with those above
Omnipotence is lost in love.
On earth I ask no more
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will be thy King.”—[Hosea] xiii. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 80.
Publishing: Public Domain