Stupendous love of God Most-High!

Verse 1
Stupendous love of God Most-High!
He comes to meet us from the sky
In mildest majesty,
Full of unutterable grace
He calls the weary, burthen’d race,
Come all for help to Me.

Verse 2
Tir’d with the greatness of my way,
From Him I would no longer stray,
But rest in Jesus have,
Weary of sin, from sin would cease,
Weary of my own righteousness,
And stoop [strip?] myself to save.

Verse 3
Weary of passions unsubdued,
Weary of vows in vain renew’d,
Of forms without the power,
Of prayers, and hopes, complaints, and groans,
My fainting soul in silence owns
I can hold out no more.

Verse 4
Beneath this mountain-load of grief,
Of guilt, and desperate unbelief,
Jesus, thy creature see,
With all my nature’s weight opprest,
I sink, I die for want of rest,
Yet cannot come to Thee.

Verse 5
Mine utter helplesness I feel;
But Thou who gav’st the feeble will,
Th’ effectual grace supply:
Be Thou my strength, my light, my way,
And bid my soul the call obey,
And to thy bosom fly.

Verse 6
Fulfil thine own intense desire,
And power into my heart inspire,
The power of faith and love;
Then, Saviour, then to Thee I come,
And find on earth the life, the home,
The rest of saints above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.’—[Matt. 11,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 253.
Publishing: Public Domain