The night of death will quickly come

Verse 1
The night of death will quickly come;
I now perceive it nigh,
And hasten to my heavenly home,
But am not fit to die.

Verse 2
Jesus, thy blessed self impart,
For till I Thee receive,
And love my Lord with all my heart;
I am not fit to live.

Verse 3
My only want, desire, and hope
To feel thy hallowing blood,
After thy likeness to wake up,
And then return to God:

Verse 4
Partaker of thy purity
I gladly woud remove
The Lover of my soul to see,
To see the God I love.

Verse 5
For this I in thy Spirit cry
According to thy will
The grace bring in, the blood apply,
The perfect love reveal:

Verse 6
The meaning of thy Spirit’s prayer
To Thee, O God, is known:
My gasping, dying soul prepare,
And take me to thy throne.

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 401.
Publishing: Public Domain