Jesus the oft-repeated call

Verse 1
Jesus the oft-repeated call
Doth to obdurate sinners give,
Time to recover from their fall,
To weigh their ways, repent, and live:
He turns us to our hearts again,
He asks me, whom I seek below,
Would I the world, or Christ obtain,
The joy of grace or nature know?

Verse 2
Him do I seek, by faith t’ adore,
Or by my sins to crucify?
Jesus, Thou dost my thoughts explore,
My soul is naked to thine eye:
I seek, or think I seek my Lord,
That when I find thy precious grace,
Thy name may be confess’d, ador’d,
And hallow’d with eternal praise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? and they said Jesus of Nazareth.’—[John 18,] v. 7." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 67.
Publishing: Public Domain