What posture should I use, who see
The prostrate Son of God
In tears, in mortal agony,
And bath’d in his own blood?
A sense of Jesu’s grief unknown,
Father, to me impart,
And hear his humble Spirit groan
In my poor, broken heart.
What posture should I use, who see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He fell on his face, and prayed.”—[Matt.] xxvi. 39. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 403.
Publishing: Public Domain