Thou God of pity, stay this sore disease!
Thou God of mercy, give thy servant ease!
Thou best of all physicians, make me whole!
Thou Son of God, give comfort to my soul!

Snatch me from hell's dun gloom to open day,
Remove all blindness from my mind away,
(So that I soon may see my dang'rous state,)
And my pain'd conscience's keen pangs abate!

Make me, like David, heartily repent -
Make me, like Magdalene, my crimes lament -
Make me, like Nineveh, my errors own,
And in the dust my sinful state bemoan!

Make me thy pardon earnestly implore,
Like king Manasses, when distress'd of yore,
Make me, like Peter, for forgiveness cry,
Make me, like Him, repent before I die!

Make me believe my pardon is procur'd,
Seal'd, and beyond the reach of the fate secur'd,
And that my soul is rinsed in the flood
Of thy most precious, and all-cleansing blood!

Make me, like Lazarus, in silence bear
My sickness and my pain, howe'er severe,
My confidence, in thee, O make me place,
Like patient Job, however bad my case!

Make me deliv'rance seek, O Lord! from thee,
And thee alone, in all my misery,
Like good Elijah, when of old distrest,
In such a manner as to thee seems best.

Make me, like Hezekiah, cast aside
This world's vain pomp, and all its tinsel pride,
And turn, like Him, unto the wall my face,
That I in thee alone my trust may place!

O make me think on that tremendous day,
When I before thee my accounts must lay,
For ev'ry idle word, and ev'ry crime;
Unless I can renounce them all in time.

O make me to the Gospel lend an ear,
And to the promises recorded there!
O, make me grasp those promises divine
With Faith's strong gripe, and make them ever mine.

Make me reflect upon the life above,
To which we shortly shall from this remove,
Where, for thy saints, eternal joys remain -
Joys, unalloy'd by sickness, or by pain.

Make me renounce the world and its deceits,
Its pompous pageantries and gilded baits;
Nor let me idly loiter on the road,
But haste to thee, my Saviour, and my God!

Make me, O Lord! without the least delay,
My soul and body on thy altar lay,
And earnestly, until my latest hour,
Thy mercy and thy patronage implore.