The sinner blind is always poor,
And begging waits at Mercy’s door:
He waits when now restor’d to sight,
A suppliant still for farther light,
Humbly resolv’d thro’ life to sit
A beggar at his Saviour’s feet.
The sinner blind is always poor
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The neighbours said, Is not this he that sat and begged?’—[John 9,] v. 8." 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 441.
Publishing: Public Domain