Ingrave her doom upon my heart,
That I may never wish to part,
(So apt to tempt my loving God,
To stop, and linger on the road)
That I may never more draw back,
Saviour, into thy bosom take,
And make this dear-bought soul of mine
A monument of grace divine.
Engrave her doom upon my heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Remember Lot’s wife.”—[Luke] xvii. 32. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 254.
Publishing: Public Domain