My God, I am thine
My God, I am thine. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Volume I of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), in a section entitled ‘Hymns for Believers’, the first of a group of seven hymns in the metre of 5.5.11. In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists the two short lines were printed as one, and the six verses printed as three quatrains:
My God, I am thine; What a comfort divine,What a blessing to know that my Jesus is mine!In the heavenly Lamb Thrice happy I am,And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name.
It appeared there in the section ‘For Believers Rejoicing’. It has remained in use in most Methodist books up to and including HP,...
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