Scripture Verse

If anyone says to this mountain, Go, throw yourself into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Mark 11:23

Introduction

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Henry Carey (1687–1743)

Words: Charles Wes­ley, Hymns and Sac­red Po­ems 1749, num­ber 186.

Music: Car­ey’s Sur­rey Hen­ry Car­ey, 1723. Har­mo­ny from The Eng­lish Hym­nal (Lon­don: Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1906), num­ber 491 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

Lyrics

Give me the faith which can re­move
And sink the mount­ain to a plain;
Give me the child­like pray­ing love,
Which longs to build Thy house again;
Thy love, let it my heart ov­er­pow­er,
And all my sim­ple soul de­vour.

I want an ev­en strong de­sire,
I want a calm­ly fer­vent zeal,
To save poor souls out of the fire,
To snatch them from the verge of hell,
And turn them to a par­don­ing God,
And quench the brands in Je­sus’ blood.

I would the pre­cious time re­deem,
And long­er live for this alone,
To spend, and to be spent for them
Who have not yet my Sav­ior known;
Fully on these my mis­sion prove,
And on­ly breathe, to breathe Thy love.

My tal­ents, gifts, and grac­es, Lord,
Into Thy bless­ed hands re­ceive;
And let me live to preach Thy Word,
And let me to Thy glo­ry live;
My ev­ery sac­red m­oment spend
In pub­lish­ing the sin­ner’s friend.

Enlarge, in­flame, and fill my heart
With bound­less cha­ri­ty di­vine,
So shall I all my strength ex­ert,
And love them with a zeal like Thine,
And lead them to Thy op­en side,
The sheep for whom the Shep­herd died.

Wesley’s orig­in­al text:

O that I was as here­to­fore
When first sent forth in Je­sus’ name.
I rushed thro’ ev­ery op­en door,
And cried to all, Be­hold the Lamb!
Seized the poor trem­bling slaves of sin,
And forced the out­casts to come in.

The God who kills, and makes alive,
To me the quick­en­ing pow­er im­part,
Thy grace re­store, Thy work re­vive,
Retouch my lips, re­new my heart,
Forth with a fresh com­miss­ion send,
And all Thy ser­vant’s steps at­tend.