Father, Thy kind advice I take

Verse 1
Father, thy kind advice I take,
By thine Almighty Spirit led,
The world, the atheist world forsake
And let the dead intomb their dead,
Withdraw my heart from vanity,
And give it up intire to Thee.

Verse 2
I now come out from all their ways,
Their mad pursuits of bliss below,
Their honors mean, their pleasures base
Their riches false with joy forego,
As far as East from West remov’d
From all I priz’d, and all I lov’d.

Verse 3
Th’ abominable thing unclean
Thro’ faith resolv’d to touch no more,
I fly the neighbourhood of sin,
And kept by thy restraining power
Their evil and my own eschew,
Till Thou create my soul anew.

Verse 4
Father, into thy arms of love
Me for thy promise sake receive,
An hidden life with Christ above,
A life of holiest faith to live,
Till Jesus with his saints comes down
And claims the partner of his throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.’—[2 Cor.] 6:17.” 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 52.
Publishing: Public Domain