Thy call, O God, to man conveys
Sufficiency of gifts and grace:
Wherefore to me thy Spirit impart,
And bless me with a pastor’s heart;
The servant of thy people I
Shall then rejoice to live and die.
Thy call, O God, to man conveys
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God gave him another heart.”—[I. Sam.] x. 9. 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 156.
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