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O JESUS, full of truth and grace,
   More full of grace than I of sin,
Yet once again I seek Thy face;
    Open Thine arms and take me in,
And freely my backslidings heal,
And love the faithless sinner still.
 
2  Thou know’st the way to bring me back,
    My fallen spirit to restore:
O, for Thy Truth and mercy’s sake,
    Forgive, and bid me sin no more;
The ruins of my soul repair,
And make my heart a house of prayer.
 
3  The stone to flesh do Thou convert,
    The trait of sinfulness remove;
O speak into my wayward heart,
    And melt it down by dying love;
This rebel heart, O now subdue,
And make it tender, form it new.
 
4  O give me, Lord, the tender heart
    That trembles at the approach of sin;
A godly fear of sin impart,
    Implant, and root it deep within,
That I may dread Thy gracious power,
And never dare offend Thee more.
 
Charles Wesley, 1707-88