Saviour I in Thee confide

Saviour, I in Thee confide:
How shall I thy grace retain?
Aught if I desire beside,
All my good desires are vain:
Lest the world insnare my heart,
Banish every thought of Thee,
Entring now, no more depart,
Christ, be all in all to me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The lusts of other things entring in choak the word.’—[Mark 4,] v. 19.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 474.
Publishing: Public Domain