Prepar’d by sacred poverty,
Jesus, the power of God in me
Unto salvation prove,
Preach to my troubled soul thy peace,
Inspire with all thy holiness,
With all thy heavenly love.
Prepared by sacred poverty
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The poor have the gospel preached to them.”—[Matt.] xi. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 246.
Publishing: Public Domain