He spake, and Jesus’ word alone

Verse 1
He spake, and Jesus’ word alone
Effects the double miracle,
The distant body of the son,
The father’s heart a word can heal:
Credence to God the father gives,
Heal’d of his incredulity
His son restor’d to health believes,
Believes the cure he doth not see.

Verse 2
This is the miracle I need,
Saviour of souls, for this I pray,
Let virtue out of Thee proceed,
And take the plague of sin away:
The fever of fierce passion chide,
Command it, Jesus, to depart,
The fever of desire and pride,
And cure my unbelieving heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saith, Go thy way; thy Son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him.’—[John 4,] v. 50." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 233. Verse 1 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 362.
Publishing: Public Domain