Jesus, a soul afflicted see,
Brought by the prayer of faith to Thee
And plac’d beneath thine eye:
Thy love, thine all-redeeming love
His sin and sickness can remove,
And freely justify.
Jesus, a soul afflicted see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They brought to him a man sick of the palsy.’—[Matt. 9,] v. 1.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 21.
Publishing: Public Domain