While thou dost our souls restore (Ps. 23:3)
To their unsinning state,
Give us evil to abhor, (Ps. 97:10, Ps. 119:104, Rom. 12:9)
And every idol hate; (Ezek. 37:23)
Nature’s filthiness remove, (Ezek. 37:23)
Filthiness of self and pride,
Only thee that we may love, (Deut. 6:5, Deut. 10:12, Deut. 11:13, Deut. 13:3, Deut. 30:6, Matt. 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27)
And pure ’till death abide.
While Thou dost our souls restore
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, &c.”—[Ezek.] xxxvii. 23. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 63.
Publishing: Public Domain