And Can I Yet Delay

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And can I yet delay

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: BOYLSTON
Published in 372 hymnals

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	LIFT HIGH THE CROSS

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1 And can I yet delay
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away
For Jesus to receive?

2 Nay, but I yield, I yield!
I can hold out no more.
I sink, by dying love compelled,
And own Thee, Conqueror!

3 Though late, I all forsake:
My friends, my all resign.
Gracious Redeemer, take, O take,
And seal me ever Thine!

4 Come, and possess me whole,
Nor thence again remove;
Settle and fix my wavering soul
With all Thy weight of love.

5 My one desire be this:
Thy only love to know,
To seek and taste no other bliss,
No other good below.

Source: African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #270

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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