I ask not, Lord, when time shall end

Verse 1
I ask not, Lord, when time shall end,
Assur’d it soon shall end with me:
But lo thy coming I attend,
To fit me for eternity,
Before my soul and body part,
To fix thy kingdom in my heart.

Verse 2
Let others, curious to inquire,
The signs of thy Appearing show;
Saviour, ’tis all my heart’s desire
Thy Spirit’s reigning grace to know;
O could I now my Lord obey,
O could I live for God to day!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Tell us when shall these things be: and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world.’—[Matt. 24,] v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 366.
Publishing: Public Domain