Drawn by the secret power of grace
Sin to forsake and all its ways,
And not a moment lose,
He vows to try if prayer can move
The bowels of a Father’s love,
At once resolves, and does.
Drawn by the secret power of grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I will arise, and will go to my father &c.’—[Luke 15,] v. 18.” 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 236.
Publishing: Public Domain