See with what vehement eagerness

Verse 1
See with what vehement eagerness
What faith, and hope, and zeal
Distemper’d crouds to Jesus press
Who doth their bodies heal!
And shall not languid souls draw near,
To Christ for help apply,
Sentenc’d, unless He heal them here,
An endless death to die?

Verse 2
More desperately diseas’d than those
Who first embrac’d thy feet,
Saviour, my evils I expose,
And for thy grace entreat;
Spiritual health I seek from Thee
With unremitting strife,
With strongest importunity
I ask eternal life.

Verse 3
Feet on my helpless soul bestow
To walk in all thy ways,
The eyes of faith my Lord to know,
A tongue to sound thy praise;
Thy Spirit’s powerful skill exert,
My sicknesses remove,
And cure the evil of my heart
With balm of perfect love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Great multitudes came unto him having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet, and he healed them.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 30.” 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 293.
Publishing: Public Domain