Only on our Father’s love

Only on our Father’s love
For the kingdom we depend:
Whom He doth in Christ approve
God shall keep us to the end:
Kindly numbred with his own,
Wherefore should we doubt or fear?
He who hath the work begun,
Gives the grace to persevere.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.’—[Luke 12,] v. 32.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 212.
Publishing: Public Domain