Thou art the door: I knock at thee,
To be redeem’d from sin;
And soon thy heart shall open’d be,
To take the suppliant in:
Thus will I all my life employ,
And wait the welcome word,
Enter into celestial joy,
And triumph with thy Lord.
Thou art the Door: I knock at thee
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.”—[Matt.] vii. 8. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 200.
Publishing: Public Domain