Thee in heart, and word, and deed
Gladly, Lord, I would confess,
Walk as by thy Spirit led,
Following after righteousness:
Sure that Thou in whom I trust
Wilt acknowledge me for thine,
Praise before thy heavenly host,
Share with me the throne Divine.
Thee in heart, and word, and deed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.'—[Luke 12,] v. 8.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 135-36.
Publishing: Public Domain