{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/008-grace-after-meat-part-i","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"008 Grace After Meat Part I","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1739","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-008-grace-after-meat-part-i","passage_ids":["cw-008-grace-after-meat-part-i-full"],"word_count":136,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","christology","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-008-grace-after-meat-part-i-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-008-grace-after-meat-part-i-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-008-grace-after-meat-part-i","source_title":"008 Grace After Meat Part I","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Grace After Meat (Part I) 1 Being of beings, God of love, To thee our hearts we raise; Thy all-sustaining pow'r we prove, And gladly sing thy praise. 2 Thine, wholly thine we pant to be, Our sacrifice receive; Made, and preserv'd, and sav'd by thee, To thee ourselves we give. 5\"Then\" changed to \"all\" in 4th edn. (1743) and 5th edn. (1756). 3 Heav'nward our ev'ry wish aspires: For all thy mercy's store The sole return thy love requires, Is that we ask for more. 4 For more we ask, we open then Our hearts t' embrace thy will: Turn and beget us, Lord, again, With all thy fulness fill! 5 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.","word_count":136,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:00.819144"}]}