This blessed word be mine,
Just as the port is gain’d,
“Kept by the power of grace divine
I have the faith maintain’d!”
Th’ apostles of my Lord,
To whom it first was given,
They could not speak a greater word,
Nor all the saints in heaven.
This blessed word be mine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have kept the faith.”—[2 Tim.] iv. 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 111.
Publishing: Public Domain