To Thee, my Lord, my Rock, I cry

Verse 1
To Thee, my Lord, my Rock I cry,
Ah! do not Thou reject my Prayer,
My Prayer if Thou reject, I die
Like Those that perish in Despair,
The Unbeliever’s Doom I meet,
And sink into the Burning Pit.

Verse 2
The Voice of my Complaint attend,
While earnest I implore thy Grace,
While at thy Feet my Soul I bend,
And worship tow’rd thy Holy Place,
Lift up my Heart, and humbly claim
Thy Pardning Love in Jesus’ Name.

Verse 3
With Sinners sweep me not away,
False Workers of Iniquity,
Whose Souls Thou shalt forever slay,
Because thy Works they will not see,
Or Mercy at thy Hands receive,
Or timely come to Thee, and live.

Verse 4
Blest be the Lord for He hath heard
The Voice of my continued Prayer;
I thought He would at last regard,
A Soul that cast on Him his Care;
On Him I with my Heart believ’d,
And I am help’d, and I am sav’d.

Verse 5
Wherefore my Heart with Joy is fill’d,
And dances to the Saviour’s Name,
He is my more than sevenfold Shield,
In Songs mine Helper I proclaim,
The Strength of All that trust in Him,
All-good Almighty to redeem.

Verse 6
Thou Strength of thine Anointed Ones,
Thine own persist to save and bless,
Cherish, and raise us up, thy Sons,
To perfect Power, and perfect Peace
Exalt us All on Earth to prove
Thine Height of Everlasting Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 28.” 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 56.
Publishing: Public Domain