An impotent desire I feel At Times

Verse 1
An impotent desire I feel
At times to be made whole,
But who shall undertake to heal
My long-distemper’d soul?
Not one of all our sinful race,
When Christ his grace would give,
Can help me to accept his grace,
Can help me to believe.

Verse 2
While tortur’d here with lingring pains
I languish for my cure,
Another and another gains,
And feels his pardon sure:
Pardon may all the world receive
Of their transgressions past,
But let me, Lord, at last believe,
Let me be sav’d at last.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool.”—[John 5, v. 7.]” This was based off a hymn of the same name found in Scripture Hymns (Volume 2, #244); but other than sharing a few opening lines, it is a separate hymn. It 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 234-35.
Publishing: Public Domain