Shall I my Lord and God adore

Verse 1
Shall I my Lord and God adore
In that supreme felicity,
That state of joy, delight, and power,
And glorious fellowship with Thee?
For this I all things here forego,
Pleasures, and wealth, and honours vain,
And suffering on thy cross below,
Shall in thy heavenly kingdom reign.

Verse 2
The saints shall at thy table sit,
Drink the pure chrystal streams above,
The tree of life immortal eat,
And banquet on thy richest love:
The treasures of eternity
Shall make our ravish’d souls run o’re,
And when thy open face we see,
The heaven of heavens can give no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones.’—[Luke 22,] v. 30.” 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 287.
Publishing: Public Domain