A sinner blind and poor

A sinner blind and poor,
An helpless beggar I
The pardning grace implore
Of Him that passes by:
He passes now: his name I hear,
And long to see my Saviour near.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blind Bartimeus sat by the high-way side begging.’—[Mark 10,] v. 46.” 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 37.
Publishing: Public Domain