While without strength we were

While without strength we were,
Unsav’d, unsanctified,
Our ruin’d nature to repair
Jesus for sinners died:
Our impotence of soul
He only can remove,
And make a world of cripples whole
Thro’ his forgiving love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There was a certain man at Lystra, impotent &c.’—[Acts 14,] v. 8.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 320-21.
Publishing: Public Domain