Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go

Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749) in six 4-line stanzas, no 32 in a section entitled ‘Hymns for Believers’, with the heading ‘Before Work’: Forth in thy Name, O Lord, I go,  My daily Labour to pursue,Thee, only Thee resolv’d to know  In all I think, or speak, or do. The Task thy Wisdom hath assign’d  O let me chearfully fulfil,In all my Works thy Presence find,  And prove thine aceptable Will. Preserve me from my Calling’s Snare,  And hide my simple Heart above,Above the Thorns of Choaking Care,  The gilded Baits of Worldly Love. Thee may I set at my Right-hand,  Whose Eyes my inmost Substance see,And labour...

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