Jesus mine Advocate hath been

Verse 1
Jesus mine Advocate hath been,
And by the fiery darts assail’d
Of Satan, and the world, and sin,
My faith hath never wholly fail’d:
Jesus, on whom I still depend,
Who ever lives for me to pray,
Shall keep me patient to the end,
Shall make me faithful to that day.

Verse 2
The tempted church for help relies
On his almighty prayer alone,
Who lives, his one great sacrifice
To plead before his Father’s throne:
A voice assaults the ears of God,
“That trembling, sinking soul sustain,
“Attentive to this speaking blood,
“Which cannot stream, or cry in vain.[”]

Verse 3
Sav’d by that blood from death and hell,
My own infirmity I know,
And bowels of compassion feel
For every tempted soul below,
With tenderest love their burthen bear,
(If Christ thro’ me his grace supply)
And joining in my Saviour’s prayer,
Servant of all I live and die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have prayed for thee.”—[Luke] xxii. 32. Wesley originally published verse 1 in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later added verses 2 and 3 his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 287.
Publishing: Public Domain