{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/022-hymn-to-the-son","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"022 Hymn To The Son","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-022-hymn-to-the-son","passage_ids":["cw-022-hymn-to-the-son-full"],"word_count":335,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","christology","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-022-hymn-to-the-son-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-022-hymn-to-the-son-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-022-hymn-to-the-son","source_title":"022 Hymn To The Son","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Hymn to the Son 1 O filial deity, Accept my new-born cry! 30Charles records singing this hymn in his MS Journal as early as July 2, 1738. See the travail of thy soul, Saviour, and be satisfy'd; Take me now, possess me whole, Who for me, for me hast dy'd! 2 Of life thou art the tree, My immortality! Feed this tender branch of thine, Ceaseless influence derive, Thou the true, the heav'nly vine, Grafted into thee I live. 3 Of life the fountain thou, I know I feel it now! Faint and dead no more I droop: Thou art in me: thy supplies Ev'ry moment springing up Into life eternal rise. 4 Thou the good shepherd art, From thee I ne'er shall part: Thou my keeper and my guide, Make me still thy tender care, Gently lead me by thy side, Sweetly in thy bosom bear. 5 Thou art my daily bread; O Christ, thou art my head: Motion, virtue, strength to me, Me thy living member flow; Nourish'd I, and fed by thee, Up to thee in all things grow. 6 Prophet, to me reveal Thy Father's perfect will. Never mortal spake like thee, Human prophet like divine; Loud and strong their voices be, Small and still and inward thine! 7 On thee my priest I call, Thy blood aton'd for all. Still the Lamb as slain appears, Still thou stand'st before the throne, Ever off'ring up my31 pray'rs, These presenting with thy own. 8 Jesu!32 Thou art my King, From thee my strength I bring! Shadow'd by thy mighty hand, Saviour, who shall pluck me thence? Faith supports, by faith I stand Strong as thy omnipotence. 9 O filial deity, Accept my new-born cry! See the travail of thy soul, Saviour, and be satisfy'd; Take me now, possess me whole, Who for me, for me hast dy'd! 31Ori., \"thy\"; a misprint, not corrected until the 3rd edn. (1782) of Hymns (1780). 32Charles Wesley changes \"Jesu!\" to \"Jesus,\" in All in All (1761).","word_count":335,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:08.314557"}]}