To Thy poor unfaithful creature

Verse 1
To thy poor unfaithful creature,
Jesus show thyself alive,
Thou who didst appear to Peter,
Now to me repentance give;
Me who have by sin denied Thee,
Author of thy mortal smart,
Oft afresh have crucified thee,
Turn, and look, and break my heart.

Verse 2
While with tears of true contrition
I my grievous falls deplore,
Pity my forlorn condition,
Lift me up to sin no more;
By thy glorious resurrection
Thou my twice-dead spirit raise,
Quicken’d with divine affection,
Fill’d with all the life of grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared unto Peter.'—[Luke 24,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 310.
Publishing: Public Domain