Religion
In Temptation, Hymn 4
From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749) · Osborn ed., vol. 4 (1869)
Jesus, God of my salvation,
Send the promised help I claim,
Bring me through my sore temptation,
Manifest Thy saving name:
Art Thou not the same for ever?
Do not I on Thee depend?
O continue to deliver,
Save me, save me to the end.
From Thy feeble helpless creature
Never, never, Lord, depart,
Show Thyself than Satan greater,
Greater than my evil heart:
If the fiend must vex me longer,
Buffet still my trembling soul,
Jesu, show Thyself the stronger,
Keep me, till Thou makest me whole.
Let me, while my faith is trying,
Rest in Thy atoning blood,
Always bear about the dying
Of my great redeeming God;
Till I all Thy life inherit,
Let me in Thy wounds abide,
Shelter there my weary spirit;
Save me, who for me hast died.
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