Religion

Hosea 14: Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb,
Thine, yet still unsaved I am.
Monster of iniquity,
Bring a world of sin to Thee.
If Thou canst so greatly save.
If Thou wilt Thy purchase have,
If almighty Love Thou art.
Take away this bestial heart.

Vanity, concupiscence,
I can never banish hence,
Never can myself expel.
Loathe the sins I love so well.
Carnal and corrupt in mind,
If a good desire I find,
Lord, it flows fi-om Thee alone;
Answer, and accept Thine own.

Now inclined by Thee, I pray
Take the bestial heart away;
Far out of my soul remove
All that bars Thy purer love:
More than conquer it in me.
Quite destroy the enmity;
Root it out, this love of sin,
Bring Thy heavenly nature in.

If Thy time be fully come.
Now this Antichrist consume;
Finish the transgression now,
Saviour to the utmost Thou,
Everlasting righteousness,
Thou my hallow'd soul possess;
Peace and power, and purity,
Christ, be all in all to me.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Hosea 14: Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3761/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Hosea 14: Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3761/.

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