Thou bidst me ask whate’er I will,
Thou wilt the thing requir’d bestow:
I ask thy hallowing Spirit’s seal,
I ask, thy precious self to know,
I ask an humble, perfect heart,
With all thou hast, and all thou art.
Thou bidd’st me ask whate’er I will
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God said, Ask what I shall give thee.”—[I. Kings] iii. 5. 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 173.
Publishing: Public Domain