Saviour of men, how long shall I

Verse 1
Saviour of men, how long shall I (I Tim. 4:10)
Forgotten at thy footstool lie! (Ps. 13:1)
Wash’d in[1] the fountain of thy blood, (Zech. 13:1, I John 1:7, Rev. 1:5, Rev. 7:14)
Yet groaning still to be renew’d;

Verse 2
A miracle of grace and sin,
Pardon’d, yet still alas unclean!
Thy righteousness is counted mine: (Rom. 4:22-24, II Cor. 5:21, Phil. 3:9)
When will it in my nature shine?

Verse 3
Darksom I still remain and void, (Gen. 1:2)
And painfully unlike my God,
Till thou diffuse a brighter ray, (II Cor. 4:6, II Pet. 1:19)
And turn the glimm’ring into day.

Verse 4
Why didst thou the first gift impart,
And sprinkle with thy blood my heart, (Heb. 10:22, Heb. 12:24, I Pet. 1:2)
But that my sprinkled heart might prove,
The life and liberty of love?

Verse 5
Why didst thou bid my terrors cease,
And sweetly fill my soul with peace,
But that my peaceful soul might know
The joys that from believing flow? (Rom. 15:13, I Pet. 1:8)

Verse 6
See then thy ransom’d servant, see,
I hunger, Lord, I thirst for thee! (Ps. 42:1-2, Ps. 63:1)
Feed me with love, thy Spirit give, (Luke 11:13)
I gasp, in him, in thee to live. (Gal. 2:20, Acts 17:28)

Verse 7
The promis’d Comforter impart, (John 14:16-17, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7)
Open the fountain in my heart;
There let him flow with springing joys, (John 4:14, John 7:38-39)
And into life eternal rise.

Verse 8
There let him ever, ever dwell, (John 14:16-17)
The pledge, the witness, and the seal; (Eph. 1:13-14, II Cor. 1:22, II Cor. 5:5, Rom. 8:16, Eph. 4:30)
I’ll glory then in sin forgiven,
In Christ my life, my love, my heaven! (Col. 3:3-4)

[1] Wesley changed “Wash’d in” to “Close by” in 1743.