Surely if we ought, we may

Verse 1
Surely, if we ought, we may
Every moment watch and pray:
Simply I receive thy word,
Merciful, almighty Lord:
Thou who gavest the command,
Nothing can thy will withstand;
And if I believe in Thee,
Nothing is too hard for me.

Verse 2
O that I my God might find
Always present to my mind,
O that I might Thee desire,
Thee in every wish require!
When my constant aim Thou art,
Master of my longing heart,
All my happiness and care;
Then I pray the ceaseless prayer.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Men ought always to pray.”—[Luke] xviii. 1. Wesley originally published verse 1 in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later added the second verse in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.”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 254.
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