Yes, Lord: I steadfastly believe

Verse 1
Yes, Lord: I stedfastly believe
Thou the desir’d Messias art,
Thee, Prophet, Priest, and King receive
With joy into my loving heart;
Son of the living God most-high,
His fulness all resides in Thee,
Yet didst Thou live on earth, and die
To live eternally in me.

Verse 2
The Saviour-God so long foretold,
The Ransomer of Jacob’s race,
Of all mankind to Satan sold,
My God, my Saviour I confess:
Come in the flesh Thou art I know;
Thou wilt fulfil thine own design,
Destroy the devil’s works below,
And fill our souls with life divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.’—[John 11,] v. 27." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 474.
Publishing: Public Domain