Thou who hast cast me down

Verse 1
Thou who hast cast me down
By unresisted grace
To make thy mercy known
A groveling sinner raise;
And lo, with strength divine I stand,
And walk, and run at thy command.

Verse 2
Jesus, to me appear
The Son of God and man,
Thy chosen minister
And witness to ordain;
Who cannot testify of Thee,
Unless Thou shew Thyself to me.

Verse 3
No vision of my God
But that of faith I need,
Faith in th’ atoning blood
For dying sinners shed;
I want to feel the49 blood applied,
To see the Lamb as crucified.

Verse 4
Soon as thy wounds I see,
And my Redeemer know,
Thy death reveal’d in me
I will to others show,
And every fresh display of grace
Proclaim to all the ransom’d race.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But rise, and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness &c.’—[Acts 26,] v. 16." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 427.
Publishing: Public Domain