1. Man made of earth by earth He heals!
The creature is whate’er He wills
Who gave it first to be:
Clay in th’ Almighty’s hands restores
Our bodily, or mental powers,
And gives the blind to see.
2. Your touch medicinal we prove;
Our blindness it does still remove;
The unction of your grace
Opens our faith’s enlightened eyes,
And lo! with rapturous surprize
We see your lovely face!
3. When Jesus bade 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 Savior of mankind.
4. His Spirit drew me to the pool,
Which makes a world of sinners whole,
The purple fountain showed,
The balm infallible applied,
And pointed out the Crucified,
And plunged me in his blood.
5. ’Twas there I washed my sins away,
I triumphed in the gospel-day,
To paradise restored:
And clearly still I all things view,
But nothing half so fair as you,
So heav’nly as my Lord.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #107
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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