Whom the Lord vouchsafes to feed,
They alone are truly fill’d,
Banquet on immortal Bread,
Pardon’d, sanctified, and seal’d:
Yet his gifts our want increase,
Poorer for his grace we prove,
Till we all his joy possess,
Feast on all his heavenly love.
Whom the Lord vouchsafes to feed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They did all eat, and were filled.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 37.” 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 296.
Publishing: Public Domain