But lo, at last with joy I hear
Of Jesus, and his wondrous name,
And pressing thro’ the croud, draw near
In hope to touch his garment’s hem:
Cloth’d with our flesh I Him believe
My spirit with his own to join,
And trust by contact to receive
The virtue of that Man Divine.
But lo, at last with joy I hear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.’—[Mark 5,] v. 27.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 486.
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