Religion

Mark 5:29: The spring of sin is proud self-love

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

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

Religion

The spring of sin is proud self-love;
And if my Lord His Hood apply
His blood the evil shall remove,
His blood shall wholly sanctify;
Shall first of sin obstruct the course
In this frail flesh and heart of mine,
And then dry up corruption's source
By perfect charity Divine.

The plague which all my soul o'erspreads
Jesus can in a moment heal:
The long delay from me proceeds,
From mine and not my Saviour's will:
O could I touch the' incarnate God,
And boldly my Redeemer praise.
Cured by the virtue of His blood,
The emanation of His grace!

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:29: The spring of sin is proud self-love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4729/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:29: The spring of sin is proud self-love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4729/.

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