The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

O re-assure my sprinkled heart
Thou dost abundantly forgive,
That meet, and joyful to depart,
My friends I in Thy hands may leave,
While all my cancell'd sin I see
Nail'd with Thy body to the tree.

Open my mouth to speak Thy praise,
Thy faithful love which never ends,
To minister Thy balmy grace,
To cheer my sad surviving friends,
And leave a blessing large behind,
Fruit of my prayers for all mankind.

But chiefly let my dying cries
Avail for those I call'd my own,
Endear'd by nature's softest ties,
After the flesh no longer known,
To them, dear Lord, Thy love impart,
And write Thy name on every heart.

On them, on me the prayer be seal'd
In peace and purity and power,
That conscious of the grace reveal'd,
I may at death's triumphant hour
Declare the glorious earnest given,
And leave them following me to heaven.

University of Virginia Library

HYMN LI.

[Left from my birth to Thee my God]