Behold the servant of the Lord

Behold the servant of the Lord. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in four 6-line stanzas, entitled ‘An Act of Devotion’, as an appendix to John Wesley’s pamphlet, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion (1745). The hymn was reprinted in Charles Wesley’s Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), in Hymns for those to whom Christ is all in all (1761), and, with a number of textual revisions, in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) and subsequent Methodist hymn-books. The text in 1780 was as follows: Behold the servant of the Lord!  I wait thy guiding eye to feel,To hear and keep thy every word,  To prove and do thy perfect will;Joyful...

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