Engraven on my heart and mind

Verse 1
Ingraven on my heart and mind
O that I coud thy precepts find,
Begotten from above,
The nature contrary to sin,
Th’ essential righteousness brought in
The perfect law of love!

Verse 2
The law of glorious liberty
When wilt thou, Lord, impart to me,
My soul divinely pure,
Again in holiness create,
Restore me to my first estate,
And make the covenant sure?

Verse 3
Thy covenant of redeeming grace
Stablish with all the faithful race
Eternally forgiven,
Redeem’d from inward pravity,
In every point conform’d to Thee
And take us up to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I will make a new covenant &c.’—[Heb.] 8:8.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 138.
Publishing: Public Domain