I in this emblem see

Verse 1
I in this emblem see
My own unhappy case,
My nature’s poverty
And utter helplesness;
So impotent to good I am,
Who from the womb a cripple came.

Verse 2
Here at the Temple’s gate
(The real Temple,) I
A feeble beggar wait,
And for his mercy cry,
Who only can my wants relieve,
And power, and peace, and pardon give.

Verse 3
Day after day distrest
On Jesus I attend,
And urging my request
Besiege the sinner’s Friend,
In patient prayer expect a cure,
Till He pronounce my pardon sure.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple &c.’—[Acts 3,] v. 2, 3.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 158.
Publishing: Public Domain