Verse 1
Born a sad heir of endless pain,
A sinful miserable man,
A vile transgressor from the womb,
I travel, burthen’d, to the tomb;
No refuge in myself have I,
No power from my own heart to fly,
To help its plague incurable
Or quench the fire of inbred hell.

Verse 2
Who shall my soul deliver? who
Impossibilities can do?
My heart out of my body tear,
Or snatch me from extreme despair?
Guilty I must for ever die,
Unless that Lamb his blood apply,
Mov’d by himself to set me free,
And end my sinful misery.

Verse 3
As to a loathsom carcase join’d
My spirit link’d with sin I find,
And sink into the gulph beneath,
Dragg’d by the body of this death:
But Jesus suffer’d in my stead,
To part the living from the dead,
And freely pour’d out all that blood
Which brings me back, redeem’d to God.

Verse 4
O God in Christ, a soul behold,
By blood divine redeem’d of old,
Thro’ Jesus’ wounds the sinner see,
Father of mercies, look on me!
Extend thine arms to take me in,
Pardon’d, and separated from sin,
Just thro’ Another’s righteousness,
And altogether sav’d by grace.