Th’ incurable disease
Which baffles human art,
The healer of mankind can ease,
Or bid it all depart:
I hang upon thy breath!
And let thy will be done,
In ease and pain, in life and death
I seek to God alone.
The’ incurable disease
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Asa was diseased in his feet: yet he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.”—[II. Chron.] xvi. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 213.
Publishing: Public Domain