The Man whose word is life and power

The Man whose word is life and power,
Whose word and will and act are one,
Who only could to health restore,
And fill my soul with strength unknown,
The man who hath my sins forgiven
He bids me walk with him to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘What man is he that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk?’—[John 5,] v. 12." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 367.
Publishing: Public Domain