By the Redeemer certified

Verse 1
By the Redeemer certified,
That here I have not long to live,
I wait to feel his blood applied,
Who doth for his own sake forgive.

Verse 2
His favour seal’d in perfect peace,
Is joy unspeakable t’ obtain,
His image of true holiness,
That meetness with himself to reign.

Verse 3
The Son of God reveal’d in me,
He only can my soul prepare,
Fill’d with his immortality,
To meet and grasp him in the air.

Verse 4
O might I now with Jesus find
The everlasting life brought in,
And know the Saviour of mankind,
My Saviour from all fear and sin!

Verse 5
O might I after God wake up,
And do his will like those above,
And taste in Christ, my glorious hope,
Th’ anticipated heaven of love,

Verse 6
Of love, of God in Christ possess’d;
And wing’d with infinite desire,
I then should enter into rest,
And face to face my Lord admire.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Charles Wesley, Preparation for Death, in Several Hymns (London, 1772). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain