But more amaz’d I prove
How wondrous kind Thou art,
While by thy sweet alluring love
Thou dost my soul convert,
Out of the worldly deep
Dost draw by mercy’s power,
And bring me in the sacred ship
To the celestial shore.
But more amazed I prove
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So was also James and John &c.’—[Luke 5,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 92.
Publishing: Public Domain