{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/006-grace-before-meat-part-i","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"006 Grace Before 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-006-grace-before-meat-part-i","passage_ids":["cw-006-grace-before-meat-part-i-full"],"word_count":113,"themes_auto":["prevenient-grace","reign-of-god","scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-006-grace-before-meat-part-i-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-006-grace-before-meat-part-i-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-006-grace-before-meat-part-i","source_title":"006 Grace Before Meat Part I","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Grace Before Meat (Part I) 1 Fountain of being, source of good! At whose almighty breath The creature proves our bane or food, Dispensing life or death: 2 Thee we address with humble fear, Vouchsafe thy gifts to crown; Father of all, thy children hear, And send a blessing down. 3 O may our souls for ever pine Thy grace to taste and see; Athirst for righteousness divine, And hungry after thee! 4 For this we lift our longing eyes, We wait the gracious word; Speak and our hearts from earth shall rise, And feed upon the Lord. 3Charles included this hymn in a later manuscript selection for family use: MS Family, 12.","word_count":113,"source_url":null,"themes":["prevenient-grace","scriptural-authority","reign-of-god"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:56:59.870446"}]}