Jesus thy coming we confess
To reign in every faithful heart:
Thou hast subdued our wickedness;
Yet now thy farther grace impart,
Take this indwelling sin away,
And all its cursed relicks slay.
Jesus, Thy coming we confess
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.”—[Num.] xxiv. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 85.
Publishing: Public Domain