"Ah, my dear Lord, Whose changeless love" is an eighteenth-century hymn written by the English hymnwriter Charles Wesley under the theme of enduring temptation.
The text was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems by John and Charles Wesley in 1739, structured across fourteen four-line stanzas. In its original complete form, the hymn is largely unknown to modern hymnals. However, specific centos were extracted for congregational use. A cento comprising stanzas i, ii, iii, vii, x, and xii was included in Benjamin Hall Kennedy's Hymnologia Christiana (1863, No. 1266), though its adoption remained very limited.
A more enduring excerpt formed from stanzas xi through xiv, beginning "Fondly my foolish heart essays," was published in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (the Wesleyan Hymn-Book) in 1780 as No. 282. This section was retained in the revised edition of 1875 as No. 291. The full original text was preserved and reprinted in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868 to 1872, Volume I, page 131).
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