If grace doth more than sin abound

If grace doth more than sin abound,
If willing to be found thou art,
Why have not I my Saviour found?
I sought thee not with all my heart:
Ah, give me, Lord, the seeking grace,
The vehemence of an heart sincere,
And then display thy smiling face,
And then my hallowing God appear.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ye shall find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”—[Jer.] xxix. 13. 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 33.
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