Crucified with Christ.
HUMBLE, and teachable, and mild, 
  
O may I, as a little child, 
  
My lowly Master’s steps pursue! 
  
Be anger to my soul unknown; 
  
Hate, envy, jealousy, be gone; 
  
In love create thou all things new. 
2 Let earth no more my heart divide; 
  
With Christ may I be crucified; 
  
To thee with my whole heart aspire 
  
Dead to the world and all its toys, 
  
Its idle pomp, and fading joys, 
  
Be thou alone my one desire. 
3 My will be swallow’d up in thee; 
  
Light in thy light still may I see, 
  
Beholding thee with open face; 
  
Call’d the full power of faith to prove 
  
Let all my hallow’d heart be love, 
  
And all my spotless life be praise. 
4 Come, Holy Ghost, all—quick’ning fire, 
  
My consecrated heart inspire, 
  
Sprinkled with the atoning blood: 
  
Still to my soul thyself reveal: 
  
Thy mighty working may I feel, 
  
And know that I am one with God 
                        
Charles Wesley 
                        
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
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