O might my course, like Jesu’s end,
O might his blessed death be mine!
I long my spirit to commend
Into those gracious hands divine:
Father, my gasping spirit receive,
By faith united to thy Son,
And let me with my Saviour live,
In life and death forever one.
O might my course like Jesu’s end
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit.”—[Luke] xxiii. 46. 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 304.
Publishing: Public Domain