Spirit of love, thyself impart,
Before my Spirit I resign,
If bought for me with blood Thou art,
For me redeem’d by blood divine:
Meet for that blisful Vision make,
And then, to share thy joys above,
The partner of thy nature take,
The partner of thy heavenly love.
Spirit of love, thyself impart
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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain