Come O thou uncreated Word,
And make thy saving virtue known,
Thou canst not come without it, Lord,
Salvation and Thyself are One;
Essential Happiness Thou art:
Sin to destroy, in me appear,
Come with thy blood, and wash my heart
And reign, my God, for ever here.
Come, O Thou uncreated Word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O visit me with thy salvation.’—Ps. 106:4 &c. IV.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 323.
Publishing: Public Domain