Saviour and Prince, I lift

Verse 1
Saviour and Prince, I lift
To Thee my flinty heart,
Who only dost the precious gift
Of penitence impart,
Cloath’d with omnipotence
Thou canst the stone remove,
Thou wilt bestow the contrite sense
For thou, O God, art Love.

Verse 2
I wait the powerful look
Of tenderness divine,
The Sight which many an heart hath broke
Almost as hard as mine,
The piteous spectacle
Of Jesus on the tree,
Which bids my wounded spirit feel
The death he bore for me.

Verse 3
Soon as thy cross appears,
The rocks again are rent,
Sinners dissolve in gracious tears,
And I, their chief, repent!
I weep, and still weep on,
Tho’ Thou my sins remove,
Lamenting with my latest groan
That e’er I griev’d thy love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Him hath God exalted to give repentance.’—Acts 5, [v.] 31.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 300-01. 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 258.
Publishing: Public Domain