When faith, almighty faith, is mine,
Fill’d with delightful peace,
The source of every gift divine,
The measure I possess:
And when I perfectly believe,
My calling’s prize I prove,
The length, and breadth, and height receive,
And depth of purest love.
When faith, almighty faith, is mine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘According to your faith be it unto you.’—[Matt. 9,] v. 29.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 227.
Publishing: Public Domain