Draw me, Saviour, from above

Verse 1
Draw me, Saviour, from above,
Still to every sin inclin’d,
Bind me with the cords of love;
Love alone my soul can bind,
Stop its vile propensity,
Change its groveling appetite;
Jesus, manifest to me,
Be thyself my pure delight.

Verse 2
By thy most mysterious pain,
By thy bloody sweat I pray,
By thy dying love to man,
Take, O take my sins away;
By thy supplicating cries
Me out of myself remove,
Crucified before my eyes
Force my heart its God to love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.’—[Jer.] 31:3.” 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain