{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/050-grace-before-meat-part-ii","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"050 Grace Before Meat Part Ii","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-050-grace-before-meat-part-ii","passage_ids":["cw-050-grace-before-meat-part-ii-full"],"word_count":138,"themes_auto":["means-of-grace","prevenient-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-050-grace-before-meat-part-ii-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-050-grace-before-meat-part-ii-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-050-grace-before-meat-part-ii","source_title":"050 Grace Before Meat Part Ii","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Grace Before Meat (Part II) 1 Parent of good, whose plenteous grace O'er all thy creatures flows, Humbly we ask thy pow'r to bless The food thy love bestows. 2 Thy love provides the sober feast: A second gift impart, Give us with joy our food to taste And with a single heart. 3 Let it for thee new life afford, For thee our strength repair, Blest by thine all-sustaining word, And sanctify'd by prayer. 4 Thee let us taste; nor toil below For perishable meat: The manna of thy love bestow, Give us thy flesh to eat. 77Charles included this hymn in a later manuscript selection for family use: MS Family, 13-14. 5 Life of the world, our souls to feed Thyself descend from high! Grant us of thee the living bread To eat, and never die!","word_count":138,"source_url":null,"themes":["means-of-grace","prevenient-grace","social-holiness"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:26.810353"}]}