Let him to whom we now belong
Let him to whom we now belong. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
From Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745) in four 4-line stanzas, in Part V, entitled ‘Concerning the Sacrifice of our Persons’. It was fittingly the last hymn in that section:
Let him to whom we now belong His sovereign Right assert,And take up every thankful Song, And every loving Heart,
He justly claims us for his own Who bought us with a Price:The Christian lives to Christ alone, To Christ alone he dies.
Jesus, thine own at last receive, Fulfil our Heart’s Desire,And let us to thy Glory live, And in thy Cause expire.
Our Souls and Bodies we resign, With Joy we render theeOur all, no longer ours, but thine, Thro’ all...
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