Jesus, with human eyes

Verse 1
Jesus, with human eyes
Regard my misery;
My Isaac on the altar lies,
And gasps for life to Thee!
Who didst our nature share,
And put our frailties on,
For pity sake the victim spare,
And give me back my Son.

Verse 2
By faith I know Thee near
As when in flesh array’d,
Thou didst the Man of grief appear,
And offer All thine aid:
Where’er distress is found,
A present help Thou art,
And still thy yearning bowels sound
And bleeds thy loving heart.

Verse 3
Now then, if now I pray
According to thy will,
Thy power medicinal display,
Thy balmy name reveal,
The dire disease rebuke,
Conclude the painful strife,
And by one sovereign word, or look
Restore my child to life.

Verse 4
So shall I sing thy praise,
So shall my Isaac sing
The God of Abraham’s faithful race
Our Father and our King:
So shall his harp resound
His dear Redeemer’s fame,
And spread to earth’s remotest bound
The Music of thy Name!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “[A Father’s prayer for his Son.] VII. For a Child in the small-pox.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 290-91.
Publishing: Public Domain