Stay, Thou insulted Spirit stay

Verse 1
Stay, thou insulted Spirit stay,
Tho’ I have done thee such despite,
Nor cast the sinner quite away,
Nor take thine everlasting flight.

Verse 2
Tho’ I have steel’d my stubborn heart,
And still shook off my guilty fears,
And vex’d, and urg’d thee to depart
For forty long rebellious years:

Verse 3
Tho’ I have most unfaithful been,
Of all who e’er thy grace receiv’d,
Ten thousand times thy goodness seen,
Ten thousand times thy goodness griev’d:

Verse 4
Yet O! The chief of sinners spare,
In honour of my great high-priest,
Nor in thy righteous anger swear
T’ exclude me from thy people’s rest.

Verse 5
This only woe I deprecate,
This only plague, I pray, remove,
Nor leave me in my lost estate,
Nor curse me with this want of love.

Verse 6
If yet thou canst my sins forgive,
From now, O Lord, relieve my woes,
Into thy rest of love receive,
And bless me with the calm repose.

Verse 7
From now my weary soul release,
Upraise me by thy gracious hand,
And guide into thy perfect peace,
And bring me to the promis’d land.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 1, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 370.
Publishing: Public Domain