The seed which I resolve to bless,
Shall to a mighty nation rise,
Small, to a multitude increase,
O’erspread the earth and reach the skies;
For I the Lord in season due
Will the great final promise seal,
The earth in righteousness renew,
And all my church with glory fill.
The seed which I resolve to bless
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.”—[Isa.] lx. 22. 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 459.
Publishing: Public Domain