The Apostolic word
Ev’n now proclaim’d I hear,
But look for pardon from the Lord
And not the Messenger:
Saviour, Thou see’st my heart:
Faith to be heal’d I have:
Command my evil to depart,
My soul this moment save.
The Apostolic word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The same heard Paul: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed.’—[Acts 14,] v. 9.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 361.
Publishing: Public Domain