A sinner once to sight restor’d
Need never miss his pardning Lord:
Nor shall he of his loss complain,
Who strives the Saviour to retain,
And only seeks the things above
With humble fear, and grateful love.
A sinner once to sight restored
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said, I know not.’—[John 9,] v. 12." 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 442.
Publishing: Public Domain