Religion

Jeremiah 17: Heal me, O gracious Lord, for well

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

Heal me, O gracious Lord, for well
Thou know'st myself I cannot heal.
All sin and weakness I:
But I shall be to health restored,
If Thou pronounce the sovereign word,
If Thou the balm apply.

Save, for myself I cannot save,
Thou know'st in me no help I have.
No tendency to good.
But if Thou my salvation art,
I shall be pure in life and heart,
And after God renew'd.

God over all, Thy power I own.
Thine energy of grace make known.
Thy love in me reveal;
Then shall I joyfully proclaim,
Jesus, Thy wonder-working name
Omnipotent to heal.

Then shall I my Physician praise.
Extol the God of pardoning grace,
Of peerless purity,
A monument of Thy saving love,
The truth of Thy perfection prove,
And live and die like Thee.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Jeremiah 17: Heal me, O gracious Lord, for well.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3634/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Jeremiah 17: Heal me, O gracious Lord, for well.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3634/.

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