When Jesus bade me first believe

Verse 1
When Jesus bad me first believe,
My spirit did its sight receive,
Though long by nature blind;
To Christ at his command I went,
And found him by his Father Sent,
The Saviour of mankind.

Verse 2
His Spirit drew me to the Pool
Which makes a world of sinners whole,
The purple Fountain shew’d,
The balm infallible applied,
And pointed out the Crucified,
And plung’d me in his blood.

Verse 3
T’was there I wash’d my sins away,
I triumph’d in the gospel-day,
To paradise restor’d:
And clearly still I all things see;
But nothing half so fair as Thee,
So heavenly as my Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Go wash in the pool of Siloam .... He went his way, and washed, and came seeing.’—[John 9,] v. 7." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 440.
Publishing: Public Domain