A poor worthless penitent

A poor, worthless penitent,
Saviour, behold in me!
Justly treated I consent
To be reproach’d by Thee:
Viler than the beasts am I;
Yet hungring for celestial food,
At thy wounded feet I lie,
The purchase of thy blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She answered, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.’—[Mark 7,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 7.
Publishing: Public Domain