Thy Will Be Done

This is Thy will, I know

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: TRENTHAM
Published in 14 hymnals

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Representative Text

1. This is Thy will, I know,
That I should holy be,
Should let my sins this moment go,
This moment turn to Thee.

2. O might I now embrace
Thy all sufficient power,
And nevermore to sin give place,
And never grieve Thee more!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #6649

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: This is Thy will, I know
Title: Thy Will Be Done
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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