Soon as with conscious grief I said

Verse 1
Soon as with conscious grief I said
My foot hath slipt, thy gracious aid
My sinking soul upheld,
Ready thine all-redeeming love
Th’ acknowledg’d evil to remove,
And speak my pardon seal’d.

Verse 2
Guilty whene’er my sin I own,
Mercy doth to my rescue run,
The Saviour bids me rise,
Repeats the reconciling word,
In peace, and innocence restor’d,
And freely justifies.

Verse 3
Jesus, I magnify thy grace,
Thy free, unbounded goodness praise,
And mercy without end,
Assur’d, thou wilt my weakness bear,
Till rais’d to meet thee in the air,
I grasp my heavenly Friend.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When I said My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.’—[Ps.] 94:18.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 316.
Publishing: Public Domain