Verse 1
O Son of God, whose flaming eyes
A sin-consuming virtue dart,
To scatter all thy foes, arise
And search, and purify our heart.

Verse 2
Lift up thy feet of burnish’d brass,
Satan, the world, and sin tread down,
Pity a froward, faithless race,
And call us yet again thine own.

Verse 3
The service which our fathers paid,
The faith thou didst in them approve,
Of this we now have shipwreck made,
And lost our hope, and left our love.

Verse 4
The prophets of smooth things we hear,
Who all thy promises deny,
Entrap thy servants in their snare,
And catch them with a soothing lie.

Verse 5
They teach them things unclean to eat,
To fold their arms, and take their ease,
Spiritual whoredom to commit,
Mammon and God at once to please.

Verse 6
Darkness they make with light agree,
And heaven with hell, and Christ with sin,
They say, the God of purity
Dwells in a cage of birds unclean.

Verse 7
Great searcher of the heart and reins,
Whose eyes our inmost substance see,
Who dost to all rewards and pains
According to their works decree;

Verse 8
Avert from us the heavy doom
Of such deniers of their Lord;
(Whose wrath shall to the utmost come
On all that dare corrupt his word.)

Verse 9
On us no other burthen lay,
On us, and all who have not known
What Satan, and his preachers say,
But still for full redemption groan.

Verse 10
Our knees confirm, our hands lift up,
Our hearts from things of earth remove,
And guide into a patient hope,
And looking for thy perfect love.

Verse 11
Let us hold fast the pledge of good,
The grace thou hast already given,
Till all our hearts are thine abode,
And find in thee their present heaven.

Verse 12
O let us conquer all our foes,
And active to the end endure,
Maintain thy works whoe’er oppose;
To working faith the word is sure.

Verse 13
Power over hell, and earth, and sin,
The lawful conqueror shall receive,
An everlasting power brought in,
Power without fear, or sin to live.

Verse 14
Power to o’erturn, subdue, controul
The nations with an iron rod,
Implanted in the new-born soul
The wisdom, and the power of God.

Verse 15
Power over sins, to hew, and slay
Them all with a continued stroke,
And scatter as the potter’s clay,
As vessels into shivers broke.

Verse 16
Power to maintain his victory,
The perfect life of faith to live,
Power as the Father gave to thee,
Thou to the conq’ring soul wilt give.

Verse 17
Wilt give him the bright Morning Star,
The Morning Star, O Christ, thou art,
And lo! We see thee gleam from far,
And wait thy rising in our heart!