The sudden faith Thou hast bestow’d,
Saviour, I must in words express,
Adore the true eternal God,
And thee my God, my Lord confess:
For this alone I Thee intreat,
This only good on earth desire,
To live, adoring at thy feet,
And meekly at thy feet expire.
The sudden faith Thou hast bestowed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he said, Lord, I believe: and he worshipped him.’—[John 9,] v. 38." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 452.
Publishing: Public Domain