Hymns for the Use of Families, 92

Most sensibly declining,
Born to resign my breath,
Why should I live repining
At the approach of death?
In peevish lamentation
For life I cannot cry,
Appointed to salvation,
And joys that never die.

O were that point secured,
My sorrows all would cease,
O were my soul assured
Of everlasting peace.
Saviour, I want the witness
Of my felicity,
And languish for that meetness
To share a throne with Thee.

Thy Spirit's attestation,
Added, O God, to mine,
Must be the confirmation
That I am truly Thine:
Hymns for a Family. Ill
With faith and love inspire
Thy Spirit into my heart,
And let the Sanctifier
Dispose me to depart.
Thy manifested favour
Better than life I feel,
When conscious that my Saviour
Doth in His servant dwell:
The rapturous sensation
Restores my paradise,
Prepares for my translation,
And wafts me to the skies.
Come then my hope of glory,
My unprecarious peace,
My joy untransitory,
My perfect righteousness,
The kingdom of Thy Spirit
Establish, Lord, in me.
And take me up to' inherit
My heaven of heavens in Thee.