Thou know’st, that now I love thee not

Verse 1
Thou know’st, that now I love thee not:
Thou know’st, that thee I long to love:
And thou for me the power hast bought,
And wilt the cursed thing remove,
The sin with which I would not part,
Which keeps thy love out of my heart.

Verse 2
Thy zeal to save my ransom’d soul
This thing impossible shall do,
And all my love of sin controul,
’Till love divine my heart renew,
And force my joyful lips to own
I love thee, Lord, and thee alone!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou knowest that I love thee.”—[John] xxi. 15. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 124.
Publishing: Public Domain