Granted is the Saviour's prayer. C. Wesley. [Whitsuntide.] First published in the Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines, as a "Hymn for Whitsunday." (Poetical Works, 1868-1872, vol. i. p. 188.) It was repeated by A. M. Toplady in his Psalms & Hymns, 1776, No. 351, and in a few modern collections, including the Hymnary, 1872, the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875, in an abridged form. The cento, "Come, divine and peaceful Guest," in the Songs for the Sanctuary, N. Y., 1865, and others, is from this hymn, and begins with stanza vi. Another cento, beginning with stanza iii., "God, the everlasting God," is No. 175 in The College Hymnal, N. Y., 1876.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)