What must I do, shut up alone,
And to this wretched Self confin’d?
Nothing but sin I call my own,
Naked, and destitute, and blind:
A gulph of darkness palpable,
A being infinite and void,
My nature’s total fall I feel,
And all my painful want of God!
What must I do, shut up alone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?’—[Rom.] 7:24. [I.]” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 8.
Publishing: Public Domain