Wounded by the Spirit’s sword

Verse 1
Wounded by the Spirit’s sword,
Which joints and marrow parts,
Jesus’ efficacious word,
They own, has reach’d their hearts,
Laid the depths of Satan bare,
The soul’s most intimate recess:
Now they all their deeds declare,
And all their sins confess.

Verse 2
O that we who have believ’d
May thus our fall bemoan,
Self-condemn’d, and deeply griev’d
For faith and mercy groan,
(Vilest we of all mankind
To trample on his pardning love)
Restless, till again we find
Our Advocate above!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And many that believed, came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.’—[Acts 19,] v. 18." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 393.
Publishing: Public Domain