Jesu, the all-restoring Word

Verse 1
Jesus the all restoring Word,
My fallen spirit’s hope,
After thy lovely likeness, Lord,
O when shall I wake up!

Verse 2
Thou, O my God, thou only art
The life, the truth, the way:
Quicken my soul, instruct my heart,
My sinking footsteps stay.

Verse 3
Of all thou hast in earth below
In heaven above to give,
Give me thine only self to know,
In thee to walk, and live.

Verse 4
Fill me with all the life of love,
In mystick union join
Me to thyself, and let me prove
The fellowship divine.

Verse 5
Open the intercourse between
My longing soul and thee,
Never to be broke off again
Thro’ all eternity.

Verse 6
Grant this, O Lord; for thou hast died
That I might be forgiven,
Thou hast the RIGHTEOUSNESS supplied,
For which I merit heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 225.
Publishing: Public Domain