I have need of a physician;
Jesus, my physician be:
Help me in my lost condition,
Sin’s severe extremity:
Sick to death of pride and passion,
Desperate, Lord, to thee I cry:
With thine uttermost salvation
Save, or I forever die.
I have need of a physician
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”—[Matt.] ix. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 223.
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