My soul, inspired with sacred love

Verse 1
My Soul inspir’d with sacred Love
The Lord thy GOD delight to praise, (Ps. 146:1)
His Gifts I will for Him improve,
To Him devote my happy Days, (Ps. 146:2)
To Him my Thanks and Praises give, (Eph. 5:20, Col. 3:17)
And only for his Glory live. (I Cor. 10:31)

Verse 2
Long as my GOD shall lend me breath, (Ps. 104:33)
My every Pulse shall beat for Him, (Ps. 146:2)
And when my Voice is lost in Death,
My Spirit shall resume the Theme,
The glorious Theme with Vigour new
Thro’ all Eternity pursue.

Verse 3
Trust in the Lord, ye Saints of His,
(All human Confidence is vain,) (Ps. 118:8-9, Jer. 17:5)
[Cease ye from man, for ever] cease (Ps. 146:3, Isa. 2:22)
[No help is found in faithless] Man,
The great Ones of the Earth look thro’
They cannot help themselves, or You. (Ps. 146:3)

Verse 4
Soon as the Breath of Man expires,
Again He to his Earth shall turn; (Ps. 146:4, Gen. 3:19, Ecc. 12:7)
Where then are all his vain Desires, (Ps. 146:4)
His Love and Hate, Esteem and Scorn, (Ecc. 9:5-6)
All, all at that last Gasp are o’re,
He falls to rise on Earth no more. (Ps. 146:4, Job 7:9-10)

Verse 5
He then is blest, and only He
Whose Hope is in the Lord his GOD, (Ps. 146:5, Jer. 17:7)
Who can to Him for Succour flee
That spread the Earth and Heaven abroad, (Ps. 146:6)
That still the Universe sustains, (Col. 1:16-17)
And Lord of his Creation reigns.

Verse 6
True to his Everlasting Word
He loves the Injur’d to redress (Ps. 146:7)
Poor helpless Souls the bounteous Lord
Relieves and fills with Plenteousness, (Ps. 146:7)
He sets the mournful Prisoners free, (Ps. 146:7, Isa. 61:1, Luke 4:18)
He bids the Blind their Saviour see. (Ps. 146:8)

Verse 7
Jehovah lifts the fallen up, (Ps. 146:8, Ps. 145:14)
Jehovah loves the righteous Race; (Ps. 146:8)
The Strangers and the Widows Hope, (Ps. 146:9)
The Father of the Fatherless, (Ps. 146:9, Ps. 68:5)
Sinners He views with angry Frown,
And turns their Councels upside down. (Ps. 146:9)

Verse 8
The Lord thy GOD, O Sion, reigns, (Ps. 146:10, Ps. 99:1-2)
Supreme in Mercy as in Power,
The Endless Theme of Heavenly Strains,
When Time and Death shall be no more, (Rev. 10:6, Rev. 21:4)
And all Eternity shall prove
Too short to utter All his Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm CXLVI.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1749 manuscript “MS Psalms.” 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 1977/553, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 260.
Publishing: Public Domain