Tis not a dead external sign

Verse 1
’Tis not a dead external sign
Which here my hopes require,
The living power of love divine
In Jesus I desire.

Verse 2
I want the dear Redeemer’s grace,
I seek the crucified,
The man that suffer’d in my place,
The God that groan’d, and dyed.

Verse 3
Swift, as their rising Lord to find
The two disciples ran,
I seek the Saviour of mankind,
Nor shall I seek in vain.

Verse 4
Come all who long this[1] face to see
That did our burthen bear,
Hasten to Calvary with me,
And we shall find him there.

[1] Wesley changed “this” to “his” in 1751.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 254.
Publishing: Public Domain