Yes, we joyfully confess

Verse 1
Yes, we joyfully confess,
Thou the Son of God and man
Givst the principle of grace,
Sow’st in all that heavenly grain,
Saints, thro’ thy ingrafted word
Rise, the planting of the Lord.

Verse 2
Till the grain becomes a tree,
Striking deep their root below,
Thro’ thy Spirit’s energy,
Imperceptibly they grow
Late to full perfection rise,
Sinking, till they reach the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man.’—[Matt. 13,] 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 275.
Publishing: Public Domain