To the dust my spirit cleaves

Verse 1
To the Dust my Spirit cleaves,
Quicken me, my Life, my Lord,
Thee my humbled Soul receives,
Trembling hangs upon thy Word,
I have all my Sin declar’d,
Once Thou didst my Pardon seal,
Shew me now my Prayer is heard,
Teach me now thy perfect Will.

Verse 2
Teach me thy Commands to do,
So shall I proclaim thy Praise,
Joyfully to Sinners shew
All the Wonders of thy Grace,
Melts my Soul with Guilt dismay’d,
Heavy-laden and opprest,
Send me, Lord, the Promis’d Aid,
Give the weary Sinner Rest.

Verse 3
Every evil Word and Way
Far from me, O GOD remove,
Teach my willing Heart t’ obey
All the Gracious Law of Love,
I have chose the Better Part,
The true Way of Life Divine
Thou my only Portion art,
All thy Pleasure shall be Mine.

Verse 4
Lord, I unto Thee have cleav’d,
Put me not to endless Shame,
Me who have thy Truths receiv’d,
Me who all thy Promise claim:
Set my Heart at liberty,
Swiftly then my Soul shall move,
Run the Way prescrib’d by Thee,
All the Way of Perfect Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 119. IV.” 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 212.
Publishing: Public Domain