To me, Almighty Saviour, give
Thy servant’s sayings to receive,
The true simplicity impart,
The nobleness of Lydia’s heart:
Of every heart thou hast the key,
Command that mine may yield to thee,
May hear thy whisper in thy word,
And opening now admit its Lord.
To me, almighty Saviour, give
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”—[Acts] xvi. 14. 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 315.
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