Hymns · 1739

Saviour, the world's and mine

Made popular by Charles Wesley, John Wesley

Details

Hymnal / album Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)

Publisher William Strahan

Notes Originally titled: "The Magnificat." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 120.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Ephesians 3:16-19

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Isaiah 53:3-6 Lamentations 1:12 Ezekiel 11:19 Ezekiel 36:26 John 19:30 Acts 17:28 Galatians 3:13

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Psalm 37:4 Song of Solomon 1:4 Isaiah 45:22 Jeremiah 9:1 Lamentations 3:48-49 John 4:42 John 12:32 John 14:6 Acts 21:13 I Corinthians 2:10 II Corinthians 5:21 Hebrews 12:2 I Peter 2:21 I Peter 2:24 I John 4:14

Lyrics

Verse 1
Saviour, the world’s and mine, (John 4:42, I John 4:14)
Was ever grief like thine! (Lam. 1:12, Isa. 53:3)
Thou my pain, my curse hast took, (Gal. 3:13)
All my sins were laid on thee; (Isa. 53:4-6, I Pet. 2:24, II Cor. 5:21)
Help me, Lord; to thee I look, (Isa. 45:22, Heb. 12:2)
Draw me, Saviour, after thee. (Song of Solomon 1:4, John 12:32)

Verse 2
‘Tis done! My God hath died, My love is crucify’d! (John 19:30)
Break this stony heart of mine, (Ezek. 36:26, Ezek. 11:19)
Pour my eyes a ceaseless flood, (Jer. 9:1, Lam. 3:48-49)
Feel, my soul, the pangs divine,
Catch, my heart, the issuing blood!

Verse 3
When, O my God, shall I
For thee submit to die? (Acts 21:13)
How the mighty debt repay,
Rival of thy passion prove?
Lead me in thyself the way, (John 14:6, I Pet. 2:21)
Melt my hardness into love.

Verse 4
To love is all my wish,
I only live for this:
Grant me, Lord, my heart’s desire, (Ps. 37:4)
There by faith for ever dwell: (Eph. 3:17)
This I always will require
Thee and only thee to feel.

Verse 5
Thy pow’r I pant to prove
Rooted and fixt in love, (Eph. 3:17)
Strengthen’d by thy Spirit’s might, (Eph. 3:16)
Wise to fathom things divine, (Eph. 3:18, I Cor. 2:10)
What the length and breadth and height, (Eph. 3:18-19)
What the depth of love like thine. (Eph. 3:18-19)

Verse 6
Ah! Give me this to know
With all thy saints below. (Eph. 3:18)
Swells my soul to compass thee, (Eph. 3:18)
Gasps in thee to live and move, (Acts 17:28)
Fill’d with all the deity, (Eph. 3:19)
All immerst and lost in love! (Eph. 3:17-19)