Subject to Thy parents Thee

Subject to thy parents Thee
The God supreme we praise:
O might all our children be
Partakers of thy grace!
From their birth to sin inclin’d
Convert, and make them as Thou art,
Blest with thy obedient mind,
Thy meek and lowly heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was subject unto them.’—[Luke 2,] v. 51.” 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 123.
Publishing: Public Domain