I felt my heart, and found a chilness cool

Verse 1
I felt my heart, and found a chillness cool
Its purple channels in my frozen side;
The spring was now become a standing pool,
Deprived of motion, and its active tide.

O stay! O stay!
I ever freeze if banish’d from thy ray:
A lasting warmth thy secret beams beget;
Thou art a sun which cannot rise or set.

Verse 2
Then thaw this ice, and make my frost retreat,
But let with temp’rate rays thy lustre shine;
Thy judgment’s lightning, but thy love is heat,
Those would consume my heart, but this refine.

Inspire, inspire!
And melt my soul with thy more equal fire;
So shall a pensive deluge drown my fears,
My ice turn water, and dissolve in tears.

Verse 3
After thy love, if I continue hard,
If sin again knit, and confirm’d be grown,
If guilt rebel, and stand upon his guard,
And what was ice before freeze into stone;

Reprove, reprove!
Thy power assist thee to revenge thy love:
Lo, thou hast still thy threats and thunder left,
The stone that can’t be melted may be cleft!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "God’s Love and Power." Introduced in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1741), published by John Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1741). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 2 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 10.
Publishing: Public Domain