Being of beings, God of love!
To thee our hearts we raise:
Thy all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.

Thine, only thine, we long to be:
Our sacrifice receive;
Made, and preserved, and saved by thee,
To thee ourselves we give.

Heav'nward our every wish aspires;
For all thy mercies' store,
The sole return thy love requires
Is, that we ask for more.

For more we ask; we open then
Our hearts to embrace thy will;
Turn, and revive us, Lord, again,
With all thy fulness fill.

Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad;
So shall we ever live, and move,
And be, with Christ in God.


Charles Wesley (1707-88)