We in our celestial Friend

Verse 1
We in our celestial Friend
To a kind Father pray,
Need not urge our God to lend,
Who gives without delay;
Presses us to ask for grace,
Sollicits beggars to receive
All at every time and place
Which Love Divine can give.

Verse 2
Bold we then to Thee apply,
In this accepted hour,
Father, hear thy children’s cry
And all thy blessings pour:
Truth we want, our minds to feed,
Our hearts require thy love alone;
Fulness of immortal bread
Vouchsafe us in thy Son.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves.’—[Luke 11,] v. 5.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 202.
Publishing: Public Domain