Lord, if to me Thy grace hath given

Verse 1
Lord, if to me thy grace hath given,
A spark of life, a taste of heaven,
The gospel-pearl, the woman’s seed,
The bruiser of the serpent’s head;

Verse 2
Why sleeps my principle divine?
Why hastens not my spark to shine?
The Saviour in my heart to move
And all my soul to flame with love?

Verse 3
Buried, o’erwhelm’d, and lost in sin,
And seemingly extinct within,
Th’ immortal seed unactive lies,
The heav’nly Adam sinks and dies:

Verse 4
Dies, and revives the dying flame.
Cast down, but not destroy’d I am,
’Midst thousand lusts I still respire,
And tremble, unconsum’d in fire.

Verse 5
Suffer’d awhile to want my God,
To groan beneath my nature’s load,
That all may own, that all may see
Th’ ungodly justify’d in me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Rom. iv. 5. Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of Our Faith." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 94.
Publishing: Public Domain