Son of God, to Thee I pray

Verse 1
Son of God, to Thee I pray,
Ready to put off my clay,
Make to Thee my last request,
Languishing for endless rest.

Verse 2
Might I on my Lord reclin’d
Hope at my departure find,
Peace that pain and death defies,
Love, and life that never dies.

Verse 3
Whisper to my parting soul
By thy bleeding stripes made whole
Thou, who didst my sins remove,
Hast prepar’d my place above:

Verse 4
Thou hast been the sinner’s Friend
Thou hast lov’d me to the end,
Purchas’d by thy dying groan,
Thou art come to claim thine own.

Verse 5
Kindly then thine own receive
With my loving Lord to live,
Kiss my raptur’d soul away,
Bear me to eternal day.

Verse 6
Whom have I in heaven but Thee?
Take me up thy face to see;
Then the utmost bliss is given,
Then I reach the highest heaven.

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. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Preparation for Death, in Several Hymns (London, 1772). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 407.
Publishing: Public Domain