Sustaining grace

541 L. M.
Sustaining grace prayed for.

TAUGHT by our Lord, we will not pray
   Out of the world to be removed;
   But keep us, in our evil day,
   Till patient faith is fully proved.

2 From sin, the world, and Satan’s snare,
   The members of thy Son defend,
   Till all thy character we bear,
   And grace matured in glory end.
                          Charles Wesley
                          Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)