Afflicted I cry To God for relief

Afflicted I cry to God for relief;
Thy Spirit supply to hallow my grief,
In bodily weakness to strengthen my soul,
And bid me in sickness be perfectly whole.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Is any afflicted? Let him pray.”—[James] v. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 176.
Publishing: Public Domain