I vow, resolve, and promise, Lord

Verse 1
I vow, resolve, and promise, Lord,
Thro’ thy sufficient grace
T’ eschew the thing by Thee abhor’d,
And walk in all thy ways:
Confiding in thy blood applied,
Arm’d with thy Spirit’s power,
My bosom-sin I lay aside,
And never act it more.

Verse 2
A guilty, weak, and helpless worm
I will on Thee depend,
My vow impossible perform,
And keep it to the end;
Repeat my promise every day,
And every day fulfil,
And walk, and run, and soar away,
To meet thee on the hill.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it.’—[Ps.] 76:11.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. 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 311.
Publishing: Public Domain