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.
If grace doth more than sin abound
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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