Why hast Thou apprehended me

Verse 1
Why hast thou apprehended me,
And held my struggling soul so fast?
What is the grace laid up in thee,
Which I shall apprehend at last,
The gospel-hope to which I press?
Is it not finish’d holiness?

Verse 2
Jesus, that perfect good unknown,
Restless, resign’d, I wait to gain:
But give me strength to follow on,
And strive, and labour, and sustain;
Nor ever from thine own depart,
’Till thee I love with all my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.” —[Phil.] iii. 12. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 79.
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