O could I to my Saviour pray
With simple faith and humble love,
Long from my soul Thou wou’dst not stay,
But come, and all my griefs remove:
To sinners vile in their own sight
Thou more than grantest their request,
To dwell with such Thou tak’st delight,
Their heavenly, everlasting Guest.
O could I to my Saviour pray
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, trouble not thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.'—[Luke 7,] v. 6.” This hymn appears in the 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 98.
Publishing: Public Domain