Verse 1
Come Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Restorer of thine image lost,
The flaming sword remove;
Teach me thine image to regain,
And to my docile heart explain
The mystery of love.
Verse 2
I now perceive thy love’s design;
Thou didst again in council join,
Thy name to re-impress,
Anew thy creature to create,
And raise me to my first estate
In perfect righteousness.
Verse 3
To execute thy kind intent,
Jehovah from Jehovah sent
Left his eternal throne,
A Man of Griefs, he stain’d the tree,
Saviour of all, he laid for me
The precious ransom down.
Verse 4
The Spirit purchas’d with his blood,
By Father and by Son bestow’d
Doth now in man reside;
For us he strongly interceeds,
Us into all thy counsel leads
Our sure indwelling guide.
Verse 5
Pardon he on our conscience seals,
Thy good and welcome will reveals
To save a world by grace:
He marks us for salvation’s heirs,
And moulds and fashions, and prepares
To see thine open face.
Verse 6
He sanctifies, without respect
Of high or low, his own elect
Regenerate from above,
Into thy glorious form converts,
And stamps thine image on our hearts
In purity and love.
Verse 7
O wouldst thou stamp it now on mine
The name and character divine
The holy One in Three!
Come, Father, Son, and Spirit, give
Thy love,—thyself: and lo! I live
Imparadis’d in thee.