Saviour hear a sinner’s prayer

Saviour, hear a sinner’s prayer:
A poor paralytic I
Unto Thee my case declare,
Grievously tormented cry;
Destitute of peace, and power,
Simply I my want confess,
Tell thee what Thou knew’st before,
I have need of healing grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There came unto him a centurion beseeching him, and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home, sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 5, 6.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 210.
Publishing: Public Domain