Turning with contrite hearts to God

Verse 1
Turning with contrite hearts to God,
Plung’d in the depths of Jesus name,
Pardon of sins thro’ faith bestow’d,
Thro’ faith the holy Ghost we claim,
That Spirit of the Lord most-high,
That mystic Gift unspeakable,
To help, and chear, and sanctify,
In all believing souls shall dwell.

Verse 2
The promis’d Spirit of holiness
To every age and nation given,
Father, we faithfully embrace,
And wait his sure descent from heaven,
Who now with willing mind obey
Thy gospel’s and thy Spirit’s call,
We find him sent in this our day,
We feel, the Promise is for all.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Repent, and be baptized &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 38, 39.” It appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 151.
Publishing: Public Domain