Come, Thou Spirit of contrition

Verse 1
Come thou Spirit of contrition,
Fill our souls with tender fears,
Conscious of our lost condition
Melt us into gracious tears,
Just and holy detestation
Of our bosom-sins impart,
Sins that caus’d our Saviour’s Passion,
Sins that stabb’d him to the heart.

Verse 2
Fill our flesh with killing anguish,
All our members crucify,
Let th’ offending nature languish
Till on Jesu’s cross it die;
All our sins to death deliver,
Let not one, not one survive;
Then we live to God forever,
Then in heaven on earth we live.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 330.
Publishing: Public Domain