Thy Spirit’s hand apply

Thy Spirit’s hand apply
My pardon’d sin to seal,
My soul to purify;
Assure me now “I will,”
And all my guilt shall now depart,
And sin shall leave me pure in heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He put for[th] his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.’—[Luke 5,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 145.
Publishing: Public Domain