Thy Divinity’s adorer

Verse 1
Thy divinity’s adorer,
Thee that I may truly know,
Jesus, be my soul’s restorer,
Bleeding Lamb, appear below,
God expiring on the tree
Love, be manifest in me.

Verse 2
Sharer of thy dereliction,
Joining in thy plaintive cry,
Pain’d with thy extreme affliction
Let my broken heart reply,
O let all within me moan,
Echo back thy dying groan!

Verse 3
Here would I maintain my station,
Never from the cross remove,
’Till I in my last temptation
Pay thee back thy dearest love,
Faint into thy arms away,
Die into immortal day.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity (Bristol: William Pine, 1767). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 341.
Publishing: Public Domain