Hymns · 1762

Let me, according to Thy word

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

Publisher Farley

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled “I will give you an heart of flesh.”—[Ezek.] xxxvi. 26. 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 57.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Psalm 51:17 Ephesians 3:17

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Isaiah 57:15 Ezekiel 36:26

Lyrics

Let me, according to thy word,
A tender, contrite heart receive, (Ezek. 36:26, Ps. 51:17, Isa. 57:15)
Which bleeds for having griev’d its Lord,
And never can itself forgive,
An heart thy joys and griefs to feel,
An heart, which cannot faithless prove,
An heart, where Christ alone may dwell, (Eph. 3:17)
All praise, all meekness, and all love!