Verse 1
Ready to render up the breath
Which I receiv’d from Thee,
While passing thro’ the vale of death,
My God, remember me:
Verse 2
One only thing do I desire
(Desiring all in One)
My spirit, when Thou wilt, require,
But give me first thine own.
Ready to render up the breath
Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Preparation for Death.” 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 1977/578, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 369.
Publishing: Public Domain