Give sentence, Lord, with me

Verse 1
Give sentence, Lord, with me,
For I have injur’d none,
But walk’d in mine Integrity,
And Good for Evil done.
Thou knowst mine Innocence,
And Labour to maintain
A Conscience void of all Offence
Tow’rds Every Soul of Man.

Verse 2
Yet not in This I trust,
But in the Living GOD,
Who died, and rose to make me Just,
By sprinkling me with Blood.
Herein do I confide,
Herein I rest secure,
My feeble Steps shall never slide,
But stand in Jesus sure.

Verse 3
Examine me, O Lord,
Try out my Heart and Reins,
Prove, and discover by thy Word,
Whate’er of Sin remains:
I see thy Pardning Love,
And in the Truth abide,
Till all the Truth in Thee I prove
Forever sanctified.

Verse 4
For this I have forsook
The false dissembling Race,
From all their vain Engagements broke,
And hated all their Ways:
I wash my Hands and Heart
In Innocence Divine;
My Righteousness, O Lord, Thou art,
For all my Sins were Thine.

Verse 5
Cleans’d by thy Sacred Blood
I to thine Altar go,
In Songs to spread thy Name abroad;
And all thy Wonders shew:
Lord, I have lov’d the Place
Where Thou record’st thy Name,
And by the Channels of thy Grace
Forever found I am.

Verse 6
Thro’ Thee resolv’d I am
Mine Innocence to keep,
Uphold me by thy Saving Name
And I shall never slip:
O that I in thy Blood
May full Redemption have;
Renew me, Thou all-gracious GOD,
And to the utmost save.

Verse 7
Here on thy Promise, Lord,
My Foot of Faith stands sure,
Thee will I with thy Saints record,
Till Thou hast made me pure
Then will I bless thy Name,
Till join’d to Those above
The Length, and Breadth, and Height proclaim,
And Depth of Jesus’ Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 26.” This hymn was appears in the mid-to-late-1740s manuscript “MS Fish.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/566, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in Versions and Paraphrases of Select Psalms. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 51.
Publishing: Public Domain