Weary on the well reclined

Verse 1
Weary on the well reclin’d,
Mercy in thy weariness
Mercy in thy rest we find;
Then thou stay’st to grant thy peace,
Waitest there to seize thy stray,
Rest and pardon to bestow,
Wearied with her sinful way
That she may her Saviour know.

Verse 2
Welcome weariness and pain!
Servant of thy church and Thee,
Saviour shall I not sustain
That thou didst sustain for me?
Let my toil advance thy praise,
My repose resemble thine,
Tend to minister thy grace,
Serve the blessed cause divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.’—John 4, v. 6." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 353.
Publishing: Public Domain