Full of impurity

Full of impurity
We bring the youth to Thee:
Shall our unbelief withstand?
Thou the Lord almighty art:
By the word of thy command
Drive the foe out of his heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.'—[Luke 9,] v. 41.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 112.
Publishing: Public Domain