A meer helpless sinner I
Must without his mercy die;
But when this is all my plea,
God in Christ is love to me.
A mere helpless sinner I
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God be merciful to me a sinner.”—[Luke] xviii. 13. 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 258.
Publishing: Public Domain