Not for the sake of health alone
Jesus his healing power displays,
But that the sinsick kind may own
His mightier miracles of grace:
He works, to make our pardon sure;
His arm omnipotent reveals;
And by a single body’s cure
Ten thousand helpless souls he heals!
Not for the sake of health alone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned unto the Lord.’—[Acts 9,] v. 35.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 241.
Publishing: Public Domain