The holy Jesus rests in hope

Verse 1
The Holy Jesus rests in Hope,
And calm in Death on GOD relies,
His parting Spirit He gives up,
Into his Father’s Hands, and dies.

Verse 2
Meek patient Lamb, for Us He gives
The Life which none could take away,
He lays it down, and GOD receives
His Soul into Eternal Day.

Verse 3
O might I thus my Warfare end,
Meekly to GOD my Soul resign,
Into my Father’s Hands commend;
O Jesus, let thy Death be mine!

Verse 4
I long with Thee to bow my Head,
Offer’d upon thy Sacrifice,
With Thee to sink among the dead,
And in thy Life triumphant rise.

Verse 5
Father of Jesus Christ my Lord,
Conform me to thy Suffering Son,
And let my Spirit be restor’d,
And let me breathe my latest Groan.

Verse 6
Now, let me Now give up the Ghost,
Now let my Nature’s Life be or’e,
Now let me all in Christ be lost,
And die with Christ to die no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Into thy Hands I commend my Spirit.’—[Luke 23:46].” This hymn appears in the ca. 1743 manuscript “MS Thirty.” 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 1977/424, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 204. The first four verses were published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 99.
Publishing: Public Domain