Verse 1
Why shoud I live another day
Without my Saviour’s love?
O take this heart of stone away,
This mountain-sin remove,
Whate’er retards thy faithful word,
And keeps me still unblest,
A stranger to my pardning Lord,
My soul’s eternal Rest.

Verse 2
What can th’ Omnipotent withstand,
Or cross thy sovereign will?
Thy own desire, thy own command,
Jesus, in me fulfil:
Who didst a Man of grief appear,
Who hast for sinners died,
The end of all thy sufferings here
See, and be satisfied.

Verse 3
Appear as crucified for me
The purchase of thy blood;
To get thyself the victory
Come, O my Lord, my God;
To make thy depth of mercy known
Thy Spirit now impart,
And break by thy expiring groan,
And take my broken heart.

Verse 4
It must, alas, continue whole,
Till I my Saviour see
As pouring out his spotless soul,
As dying on the tree:
That piteous spectacle alone
My flinty heart can move,
And turn to flesh the soften’d stone,
And melt me into love.

Verse 5
Come then, thou slaughter’d Lamb Divine,
Thy bleeding wounds display,
And seize to day this heart of mine
While it is call’d to day:
A time to Thee I woud not set,
Yet at thy cross I bow,
Restless, resign’d thy coming wait,
And long to meet thee Now.

Verse 6
Thou art not slack to keep thy word,
O help my unbelief,
Make haste to help thy servant, Lord,
And end my sin and grief:
This moment, if thy time is come,
Inspire the heavenly grace,
And take my loving spirit home
To see thy blisful face.