{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/030-justified-but-not-sanctified","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"030 Justified But Not Sanctified","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1739","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-030-justified-but-not-sanctified","passage_ids":["cw-030-justified-but-not-sanctified-full"],"word_count":531,"themes_auto":["christology","experience","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-030-justified-but-not-sanctified-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-030-justified-but-not-sanctified-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-030-justified-but-not-sanctified","source_title":"030 Justified But Not Sanctified","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Justified, But Not Sanctified 1 My God (if I may call thee mine From heav'n and thee remov'd so far) Draw nigh; thy pitying ear incline, And cast not out my languid pray'r. Gently the weak thou lov'st to lead, Thou lov'st to prop the feeble knee, O break not then a bruised reed, Nor quench the smoaking flax in me. 2 Buried in sin, thy voice I hear, And burst the barriers of my tomb, In all the marks of death appear, Forth at thy call, tho' bound, I come. Give me, O give me fully, Lord, Thy resurrection's pow'r to know; Free me indeed; repeat48 the word, And loose my bands, and let me go. 3 Fain would I go to thee my God, Thy mercies and my wants to tell: I feel my pardon seal'd in blood; Saviour, thy love I wait to feel. 47This hymn is retitled \"Another\" in the 4th edn. (1743) and 5th edn. (1756); perhaps reflecting Wesley's distinction between \"initial sanctification,\" which accompanies justification, and \"entire sanctification.\" 48\"Repeat\" changed to \"pronounce\" in 2nd edn. (1739) only. Freed from the pow'r of cancel'd sin; When shall my soul triumphant prove? Why breaks not out the fire within In flames of joy and praise and love? 4 When shall my eye affect my heart, Sweetly dissolv'd in gracious tears? Ah, Lord, the stone to flesh convert! And till thy lovely face appears, Still may I at thy footstool keep, And watch the smile of op'ning heav'n: Much would I pray, and love, and weep; I would; for I have much forgiv'n. 5 Yet O! Ten thousand lusts remain, And vex my soul absolv'd from sin, Still rebel nature strives to reign, Still am I all unclean, unclean! Assail'd by pride, allur'd by sense, On earth the creatures court my stay; False flatt'ring idols get ye hence, Created good be far away! 6 Jesu, to thee my soul aspires, Jesu, to thee I plight my vows, Keep me from earthly base desires, My God, my Saviour, and my spouse. Fountain of all-sufficient bliss, Thou art the good I seek below; Fulness of joys in thee there is, Without 'tis mis'ry all and woe. 7 Take this poor wandring, worthless heart, Its wandrings all to thee are known, May no false rival claim a part, Nor sin disseize thee of thine own. Stir up thy interposing pow'r, Save me from sin, from idols save, Snatch me from fierce temptation's hour, And hide, O hide me in the grave! 8 I know thou wilt accept me now, I know my sins are now forgiv'n! My head to death O let me bow, Nor keep my life, to lose my heav'n. Far from this snare my soul remove, This only cup I would decline, I deprecate a creature-love, O take me, to secure me thine. 9 Or if thy wiser will ordain The trial, I would die to shun, Welcome the strife, the grief, the pain, Thy name be prais'd, thy will be done! I from thy hand the cup receive, Meekly submit to thy decree, Gladly for thee consent to live! Thou, Lord, hast liv'd, hast died for me!","word_count":531,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","experience","reign-of-god"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:12.347214"}]}