Verse 1
God of love, that hear’st the prayer,
Kindly for thy people care,
Who on thee alone depend,
Save us, save us to the end!
Save us in the prosperous hour
From the flatt’ring tempter’s power,
From his unsuspected wiles,
From the world’s pernicious smiles.

Verse 2
Cut off our dependance vain
On the help of feeble man,
Ev’ry arm of flesh remove,
Stay us on thy only love.
Let us still afflicted be,
Shelter’d in thy poverty,
Cover’d with thy sacred shame,
Kept by thine almighty name.

Verse 3
Men of worldly low design
Let not these thy people join,
Dare thy hallow’d ark sustain,
Touch it with their hands prophane.
Saviour, compass us about
Keep the rich and noble out,
Till their all in heart they sell,
Till the worms their baseness feel.

Verse 4
Men of dignity and power
Let not them thy flock devour,
Poison our simplicity,
Drag us from our trust in thee.
Save us from the great and wise
Till they sink in their own eyes,
Till they to thy yoke submit,
Lay their honour at thy feet.

Verse 5
Never let the world break in,
Fix a mighty gulph between,
Keep us humble and unknown,
Priz’d and lov’d by God alone.
Let us still to thee look up,
Thee thy Israel’s strength and hope,
Nothing known,[1] or seek beside
Jesus, and him crucify’d.

Verse 6
Dignify’d with worth divine
Let us in thine image shine,
High in heav’nly places sit,
See the moon beneath our feet.
Far above created things
Look we down on earthly kings,
Taste our glorious liberty,
Find our happy all in thee.

[1] Wesley changed “known” to “know” in 1747.