Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), Hymn 19

My Jesus, my Lamb,
All weakness I am,
But strength and salvation are found in Thy name.
I come for the grace
Thy Father did place
On Thee for myself, and for all the lost race.
Be near to defend,
Continue my Friend;
I know Thou hast loved me; but love to the end.
Our Safeguard Thou art,
And shouldst Thou depart,
I perish, destroy'd by my own evil heart.
But I trust Thou wilt stay.
Till I see the glad day, away.
When Thy blood shall have wash'd all my evil
I have faith in Thy blood,
It hath brought me to God,
And I in Thine image shall soon be renew'd.
I shall throughly be clean,
And all holy within;
Thine image can harbour no relics of sin.

Of pardon possess'd,
Yet can I not rest
In the first gift, but earnestly covet the best.

The best I shall prove,
When perfect in love,
I serve Thee on earth as the angels above.

This, this is the prize,

perfection I rise,
And walk before God till I fly to the skies.