The spring of sin is proud self-love

Verse 1
The spring of sin is proud self-love;
And if my Lord his blood apply,
His blood the evil shall remove,
His blood shall wholly sanctify;
Shall first of sin obstruct the course
In this frail flesh and heart of mine,
And then dry up corruption’s source
By perfect charity Divine.

Verse 2
The plague which all my soul o’respreads
Jesus can in a moment heal:
The long delay from me proceeds,
From mine, and not my Saviour’s will:
O could I touch th’ Incarnate God,
And boldly my Redeemer praise,
Cur’d by the virtue of his blood,
The emanation of his grace!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up: and she felt in her body &c.’—[Mark 5,] v. 29.” Wesley originally published a portion of this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/575, 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 487.
Publishing: Public Domain