God of all grace and patience, hear my supplicating cry

Verse 1
God of all grace and patience, hear
My supplicating cry,
And show me thy salvation near
While at the point to die.

Verse 2
Before my soul and body part,
The carnal enmity,
The plague expel out of my heart,
And part my sin and me.

Verse 3
Such power belongs to Thee alone
Who didst for sinners bleed,
And purchase by thy dying groan
The benefits I need:

Verse 4
Thou shed’st thy blood, that I might find
Redemption in thy blood,
And seperated from sin, be join’d
Eternally to God.

Verse 5
Thy own kind purpose to fulfil,
Come, Saviour, from above,
And rooting out the inbred ill,
Fill all my soul with love;

Verse 6
Finish the first transgression, Thou
Who hast my sins forgiven,
And lo, my willing head I bow,
And go in peace to heaven!

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Preparation for Death.” 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 1977/578, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Preparation for Death, in Several Hymns (London, 1772). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 406.
Publishing: Public Domain