Details
Hymnal / album
Miscellaneous Hymns (manuscript)
Publisher
Kingswood Books
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: “‘Take away all iniquity, and give good.’—Hosea 14:2.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 457.
Scripture connections
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Take this concupiscence away, (Hosea 14:2)
And while Thou dost the plague remove, (Ps. 39:10)
Saviour, into my heart convey
The chast desire, the heavenly love; (Ps. 51:10)
If Thou dost my salvation will,
If Thou hast bought me with thy blood, (I Pet. 1:18-19, I Cor. 6:20)
My heart with pure affection fill,
And bring me back redeem’d to God. (Rev. 5:9)