What shall I render to my God (Wesley)

What shall I render to my God (Wesley). Charles Wesley* (1707-1788) This hymn has the same first line as the metrical version by Isaac Watts* of Psalm 116, which is probably why it remained unpublished for many years. It was printed in Volume 8 of George Osborn’s The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-72), in which he printed ‘Versions and Paraphrases of Select Psalms’. This was headed ‘Psalm CXVI’. The lines below were part of a long paraphrase of eleven 8-line stanzas beginning ‘The Lord who saved me by His grace’. Stanzas 7-11 were as follows: What shall I render to my God   For all His mercies’ store? I’ll take the gifts he hath bestow’d,   And humbly ask for more. The...