Whate’er the instrument or means
’Tis Jesus makes the sinner whole;
He only saves us from our sins,
And cures the palsy of the soul:
The virtue which his grace supplies
Transmitted by the gospel-word,
Strengthens my impotence to rise,
And others turns to serve my Lord.
Whate’er the instrument or means
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Peter said unto him, Eneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole; arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.”—[Acts 9,] v. 34.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 331-32.
Publishing: Public Domain