Teach me, Lord, the perfect way

Verse 1
Teach me, Lord, the Perfect Way,
Me who on thy Love depend,
Then I in thy Laws shall stay,
I shall keep them to the End.
Wisdom from above impart,
Taught according to thy Will,
I shall then with all my Heart
All thy kind Commands fulfil.

Verse 2
Cause me in thy Paths to go,
All my Comfort and Delight
All my Happiness below
Is with Thee to walk aright:
Set my Heart on Things above,
Heavenward let it still aspire,
Far from every Creature-Love,
Far from every low Desire.

Verse 3
Turn away my roving Eyes
From beholding Vanity,
Let me in thine Image rise,
Find my Hidden Life in Thee.
O fulfil the Hallowing Word,
Perfected in Filial Fear
Make the Servant as his Lord
Holy, pure, and sinless here.

Verse 4
Turn away my dire Disgrace
Turn away the dreaded Ill,
True and righteous are thy Ways,
Full of Love unsearchable:
I have long’d thy Ways to know,
Quicken this dead Soul of mine,
Wholly sanctified below
Fill’d with all the Life Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 119. V.” This hymn was appears in the mid-to-late-1740s manuscript “MS Fish.” 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 1977/566, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in Versions and Paraphrases of Select Psalms. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 213.
Publishing: Public Domain