Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 (cento from God of All Power, and Truth, and Grace (1742)).
Music: Sutherland (Ashford) Emma L. Ashford (1850–1930) (🔊 pdf nwc).
A new heart…will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you…I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 (cento from God of All Power, and Truth, and Grace (1742)).
Music: Sutherland (Ashford) Emma L. Ashford (1850–1930) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Holy, and true, and righteous Lord,
I wait to prove Thy perfect will,
Be mindful of Thy gracious Word,
And stamp me with Thy Spirit’s seal.
Open my faith’s interior eye,
Display Thy glory from above;
And all I am shall sink and die,
Lost in astonishment and love.
Confound, o’erpower me by Thy grace,
I would be by myself abhorred;
All might, all majesty, all praise,
All glory, be to Christ my Lord.
Now let me gain perfection’s height,
Now let me into nothing fall;
Be less than nothing in Thy sight,
And feel that Christ is all in all!