“I saw, and coveted, and took!”
The progress this of every sin;
While death, admitted by a look,
Lets everlasting judgments in:
But if an eye of faith on thee
I turn, directed by thy word,
Jesus mine Advocate I see,
I see, desire, and take my Lord.
I saw and coveted, and took
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When I saw, then I coveted them, and took them.”—[Joshua] vii. 21. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 123.
Publishing: Public Domain