My God, if I may call Thee mine. C. Wesley. [In temptation.] Published in the Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739, in 9 stanzas of 8 lines (Poetical Works, i., p. 133). In the old Wesleyan Hymn Book the cento consisted of 8 stanzas of 4 lines. This has been reduced to 7 stanzas, by the omission of st. vii., in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)