Assisted by preventing grace,
I bow me toward the holy place,
Faintly begin my God to fear,
His weak, external worshipper:
But if my Lord his blood apply,
Entering into the holiest I
Boldly approach my Father’s throne,
And claim him all in Christ my own.
Assisted by preventing grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.”—[Psalm] v. 7. 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 274.
Publishing: Public Domain