Verse 1
A transgressor from the womb,
Sinking now into my tomb;
O forbid it, Lord, that I,
Born in sin, in sin should die.

Verse 2
Whom thyself hast died to save,
Snatch from the infernal grave;
Me to save, thy love impart,
Pour the bliss into my heart.

Verse 3
Essence of eternal love,
Joy of all thy hosts above,
Joy of all thy saints below,
Only thee I sigh to know.

Verse 4
Banish’d now out of thy sight,
Bound in chains of penal night,
Painfully my want I feel;
Absent love is present hell.

Verse 5
Kindler of seraphic fires,
Fill my soul with pure desires;
All my guilty gloom to chace,
Jesus, shew thy heavenly face.

Verse 6
Pain before thy presence flies,
Grief no longer weeps or sighs:
Sin and unbelief remove,
God in thee I see and love.