An impotent desire I feel
At times to be made whole,
But vain the help of man to heal
My long-distemper’d soul:
The Angel-God must from the skies
Come down to cure my pain:
Come, Saviour, now, and bid me rise,
And never sin again.
An impotent desire I feel
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Wilt thou be made whole?”—[John] v. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 365.
Publishing: Public Domain