Common Tune

Hymn

A Charge to Keep I Have

BOYLSTON · S.M. · words Charles Wesley · music Lowell Mason

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A Charge to Keep I Have self sight to glo call ri re to ful on in Thy Thy ing to ly, live, fill, fy, me me serve charge keep to with the to 2. To 1. A Arm 4. Help 3. pray, care, age, have, pres God And As My A jeal watch and ous ent I ev Mas for count er to ter's the shall strict do fit for ac my it die. give! will! sky. it er Thy I ser all dy sured, if O, may nev As And O A be pre en to I A To And tray, pare gage save, pow'rs soul my vant, my ing Lord, trust Charles Wesley, 1762 BOYLSTON S.M. Lowell Mason, 1832

1.A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify,
A never-dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky.

2.To serve the present age,
My calling to fulfill;
O may it all my pow'rs engage,
To do my Master's will!

3.Arm me with jealous care,
As in thy sight to live,
And O, thy servant, Lord, prepare,
A strict account to give!

4.Help me to watch and pray,
And on thyself rely,
Assured, if I my trust betray,
I shall forever die.

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