While a weak worm pass’d by

Verse 1
While a weak worm pass’d by
Could Peter’s shadow heal?
The Lord omnipotent was nigh,
And did Himself reveal;
He made their bodies whole,
Substance of God supreme:
And still for each distemper’d soul
The power proceeds from Him.

Verse 2
O that thy Spirit of love
Might now o’reshadow me,
My plague of unbelief remove,
My nature’s malady!
O might my last distress
Attract thy pitying eye!
Heal my incurable disease,
Or see thy patient die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They laid the sick on beds that the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.”—[Acts 5,] v. 15.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 186.
Publishing: Public Domain