Hasten, Lord, the day of rest
From this indwelling sin,
Vindicate thy church opprest,
And still inslav’d within;
Burst our bonds, and let us go
From every thought of evil freed,
Pure in heart, and saints below,
And like our sinless head.
Hasten, Lord, the day of rest
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In that day I will break his yoke, &c.”—[Jer.] xxx. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 33.
Publishing: Public Domain