Angel, and Porch, and Pool Thou art,
And when thou dost thy zeal exert,
And stir thine own compassions up,
The lazar-soul that comes to Thee,
Is heal’d of his infirmity,
Is made partaker of his hope:
Soon as thy yearning bowels move,
Approaching in the time of love,
Whoe’er believes, and enters in,
Though wither’d, impotent, and blind,
Is by the Healer of mankind
Sav’d, in a moment sav’d, from sin.
Angel, and Porch, and Pool thou art
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first &c.’—[John 5,] v. 4." 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 364.
Publishing: Public Domain