My God, I know, I feel thee mine
My God, I know, I feel Thee mine. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part II, where it was entitled ‘Against Hope, believing in Hope (Rom. 4: 18)’. It was reprinted in Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1753) with the title ‘In Doubt’, and beginning ‘My God, I humbly call Thee mine’. In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists it was included in the section, ‘For Believers Groaning for Full Redemption’. It had 12 stanzas. Printings in the 19th century omitted stanza 10. Omitted in modern books, from the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904) onwards, are stanzas 5, 6, and 10-12 (1740 text):
5. Love only can the Conquest win,...
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