Verse 1
But was it all a Dream
When late I seem’d to stand
Ready to pass o’re Jordan’s stream
To the Celestial Land?
I hoped (alas in vain!)
From earth and sin to fly,
An easy victory obtain,
And like a Coward die.

Verse 2
I have not yet receiv’d
The grace for me design’d:
I only to myself have lived,
And not to serve mankind;
Not to evince and prove
My faith’s sincerity
Not to return my Saviour’s love
Who lived and died for me.

Verse 3
My Ransomer He died:
Expending all his blood
His Father’s Justice satisfied,
And paid my debt to God:
But still my debt to Man,
To Those who God revere,
I have not paid; and never can,
Unless I pay it here.

Verse 4
Surely the Sons of grace
So long asham’d for me
Who saw with grief my evil days
Shoud my repentance see:
Before from earth I go,
I shoud my faults retrieve,
Sober and just, and godly show
How pardon’d sinners live.

Verse 5
Wherefore with earnest cries
On Thee, O Christ, I call,
Restore me in thy people’s eyes
Recover’d from my fall,
To spread the joyful sound,
“A Peace ’twixt earth and Heaven
“Mercy doth more than sin abound
“And all the world’s forgiven![”]