Come Saviour Friend of human kind

Verse 1
Come Saviour Friend of human kind,
Physician of the sinsick mind,
The weary Spirit’s Rest,
Pour on my heart the healing balm,
Speak to my troubled soul, and calm
The tumult in my breast.

Verse 2
Thou only canst my loss repair,
This mountain-load of guilty care
Canst with a word remove;
Out of the deep for help I cry,
Out of myself to GOD I fly,
And shelter in thy Love.

Verse 3
O could I hear that inward Voice
Which makes the dying soul rejoice
To sudden life restor’d!
How should I my Redeemer praise,
And sing the wonders of his grace,
And triumph in my Lord!

Verse 4
Come then, dear Lord, for sinners slain,
My Joy in grief, my Ease in pain,
My Comfort in distress,
Give what the world can never give,
And bid me in thy Image live,
And bid me die in peace.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the mid-1750s manuscript “MS Richmond.” 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 1977/551, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 323.
Publishing: Public Domain