Thy name, O Christ, I bear

Verse 1
Thy name, O Christ, I bear,
Thy ruin’d character:
Hardly legible thy name,
Yet I still belong to Thee;
Marr’d by sin thine image claim,
Challenge thy own property.

Verse 2
The value I receive
Which Thou art pleas’d to give:
Stamp me with thy mind restor’d,
Real righteousness divine,
Render’d to my rightful Lord
Keep me then forever thine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whose image and superscription hath it?’—[Luke 20,] v. 24.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 184.
Publishing: Public Domain