The spirit of prayer.
THE praying spirit breathe!
The watching power impart;
From all entanglements beneath,
Call off my peaceful heart;
My feeble mind sustain,
By worldly thoughts oppress’d;
Appear, and bid me turn again
To my eternal rest.
2 Swift to my rescue come ;
Thine own this moment seize;
Gather my wand’ring spirit home,
And keep in perfect peace:
Suffer’d no more to rove
O’er all the earth abroad,
Arrest the pris’ner of thy love,
And shut me up in God.
Charles Wesley
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
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