The single miracle
He did unask’d, unsought,
A persecuting foe to heal,
The Friend of sinners wrought:
Not from himself t’ avert
The death He came to prove,
But mercy mild inclin’d his heart,
But pure, unbounded love.
The single miracle
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.’—Luke 22, v. 51.” 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 292.
Publishing: Public Domain