The promise to myself I take,
Me, me thou never wilt forsake
Who on thy Son depend:
Thy faith is plighted to my Lord,
And safe I hang upon the word
Of mine eternal friend.
The promise to myself I take
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”—[Joshua] i. 5. 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 120.
Publishing: Public Domain