Verse 1
Before my soul and body part,
Saviour, to part my sin and me,
Thy love’s omnipotence exert,
And re-unite my soul to Thee:

Verse 2
Thou knowst, for more than seventy years
I have for thy salvation stay’d,
And leaving now the vale of tears,
I mourn the blessing still delay’d.

Verse 3
Broke off from Thee, by passion griev’d,
Born to lament and suffer I
A stranger to thy love have liv’d;
And must I, Lord, a stranger die?

Verse 4
I must; unless thy yearning heart
With pure, spontaneous love or’eflow,
Unless thy nature Thou impart,
Whose blood was shed to save thy foe.

Verse 5
My hope I ground on this alone,
Thou never canst forget that tree,
Where MERCY groan’d his final groan,
Where LOVE himself expir’d for me.

Verse 6
Me to redeem from sin and hell,
Thou didst thy precious life resign,
My pardon in thy blood to seal,
And God and man again to join.

Verse 7
To buy for me th’ uniting grace,
That I, to holiness restor’d,
Might in the arms of faith embrace,
And live one spirit with my Lord:

Verse 8
That I th’ habitual, pure delight
Might in that vital union prove,
And comprehend the depth, and height,
And length, and breadth of Dying Love!