Jesus, the gift divine I know

Jesus, the gift divine I know.  Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). This is a composite hymn in five stanzas created by John Wesley* in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists from two texts in Charles Wesley’s Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762).  The first two stanzas (Volume II, p. 244) were on John 4: 10, 14: ‘If thou knowest the gift of God - thou would’st have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water, &c.: Jesus, the gift divine I know,  The gift divine I ask of thee;The living water now bestow,  Thy Spirit and thyself on me:Thou, Lord, of life the Fountain art:O could I find thee in my heart! Thee let me...