Since what I lend or give to thee,
Was first thy precious gift to me,
In this irrevocable loan,
Father, I render thee thine own;
Assur’d thou wilt in life’s short day
My loan an hundred fold repay,
And crown me, when thy Son comes down,
With glorious life’s eternal crown.
Since what I lend or give to thee
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have lent him to the Lord, as long as he liveth.”—[I. Sam.] i. 28. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 149.
Publishing: Public Domain