Religion

Mark 10: Myself from sin I cannot save

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

Myself from sin I cannot save,
My weakness I confess,
But surely in the Lord I have
Both strength and righteousness:
When Jesus gives me to beheve.
His righteousness is mine,
And I into my heart receive
Omnipotence Divine.

What cannot Christ in sinners do,
In me the sinners' chief?
Thy creature. Lord, Thou wilt renew
And end mine unbelief;
Thou wilt destroy the enmity,
My ruin'd soul restore.
Effect the thing which cannot bej
And then I sin no more.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 10: Myself from sin I cannot save.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4846/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 10: Myself from sin I cannot save.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4846/.

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