God in Christ, to whom I pray

Verse 1
God in Christ to whom I pray,
Thy omnipotence exert,
Take these evil thoughts away,
Change this poor, polluted heart
By the energy of grace
By the Spirit of holiness.

Verse 2
When my heart is circumcis’d,
Emptied of the hell within,
When my spirit is baptis’d,
Perfectly detach’d from sin,
Fervent then as those above
Thee I shall intirely love.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Hymns for Love.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/578, 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 364.
Publishing: Public Domain