To Thee I now draw near

Verse 1
To Thee I now draw near
With faith, and shame, and fear,
Mercy at thy feet implore,
Feel my own unworthiness,
Faint without thy saving power,
Die without thy healing grace.

Verse 2
Source of my holiness
Thy Manhood I confess;
Thro’ the means to Thee apply,
Wait thy Spirit to receive;
Let it heal and purify;
Jesus, in thy patient live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment, and immediately her issue of blood staunched.'—[Luke 8,] v. 44.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 173.
Publishing: Public Domain