Pressed, o’rewhelm’d with sore temptation

Verse 1
Prest, o’rewhelm’d with sore temptation,
Lord, must I
Faint and die
Purchase of thy passion?

Verse 2
Bought by Thee shall Satan have me?
God of love
From above
Haste, to help and save me.

Verse 3
Let the sprinkled blood that cleanses
From all sin,
Speak within
Blot out my offences.

Verse 4
Sovereign Lord of earth and heaven,
Cleanse, and keep
Me who weep
At thy feet forgiven.

Verse 5
From presumptuous sins defend me,
Every hour
Wisdom, Power,
Love divine, attend me.

Verse 6
In the Spirit of inspiration
Jesus, come,
To thy home,
With thy great salvation.

Verse 7
Come, and take intire possession,
Christ, my Life,
End the strife,
Finish the transgression.

Verse 8
Then my sin no more shall grieve thee,
When Thou art
In my heart,
Then I cannot leave thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “In temptation.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), pages 124-25.
Publishing: Public Domain