What shall I do my God to love, My Saviour, and the World’s, to praise
What shall I do my God to love, My Saviour, and the World’s, to praise. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
There are two hymns by Charles Wesley beginning ‘What shall I do my God to love’. In Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), in which it was first published, this one continued with the second line as above. It was entitled ‘Desiring to love’. In 1742 it had five stanzas:
What shall I do my God to love, My Saviour, and the World’s to praise? Whose Bowels of Compassion move To Me, and All the Fallen Race; Whose Mercy is divinely free For All the Fallen Race, and Me.
I long to know, and to make known The Heighth and Depth of Love Divine, The Kindness Thou to me hast shewn, Whose every Sin was...
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