God of Truth, and Power, and Love

God of truth

and pow­er

and love

Father

friend of all man­kind

Let on me Thy Spir­it move

Influence my fee­ble mind;

’Twixt the ser­pent’s seed and me

Prevalently in­ter­pose

Break the fa­tal ami­ty

Make us ev­er­last­ing foes.

Sin hath poi­soned all my soul

Sin

the ser­pent’s curs­èd seed:

No one part in me is whole

Yet will I the pro­mise plead;

Promise of all-sav­ing grace

Promise of an in­ward pow­er

Able to re­deem the race

Me

and all men to re­store.

Breathe the breath of sim­ple life

Oh! Be Ab­el born in me

Previous to the le­gal strife

Innocent sim­pli­ci­ty:

Give me child­ish­ness to op­pose

All the sub­tle ser­pent’s art;

Childishness no ev­il knows

Give me

Lord

a sim­ple heart.

Or if pride hath this de­stroyed

Turned in­to self-right­eous­ness

Let the law sup­ply the void

Seth suc­ceed in Ab­el’s place.

Deeply root Thy law with­in

Parent of the wretch­ed man;

Check my for­ward­ness to sin

Forcibly by fear re­strain.

Bind in me the strong-man bind

With the fet­ters of the law;

Curb and thwart the car­nal mind

Keep the man of sin in awe;

Enemy to all that’s good

He can on­ly be sub­dued

By the sense of par­don­ing grace;

Never will he quite give place.

Tell me Je­sus died for me

Show some to­ken of His love;

Love and sin can nev­er agree

Love shall still the strong­er prove:

Love in the first mea­sure give

Sin shall then no long­er sway

Flesh may for a sea­son strive

I the Spir­it shall ob­ey.

Patiently I then shall wait

For the wo­man’s nob­lest seed

Jesus Christ the migh­ty hate

Bruiser of the ser­pent’s head;

O re­veal Thy Son in me

Bring the per­fect na­ture in

Now de­stroy the en­mi­ty

Now con­sume the man of sin.

Adam

flesh

and self

and pride

Antichrist

per­di­tion’s son

Let him not in me abide

Cast him out

and reign alone;

Slay the dra­gon in the sea

Make my soul Thy pure ab­ode

Filled with all the de­ity

Swallowed up

and lost in God.