By A Collection of Hymns

      7s & 6s.
      1 JESU, take my sins away,
      And make me know thy name!
      Thou art now, as yesterday
      And evermore, the same;
      Thou my true Bethesda be;
      I know within thine arms is room,
      All the world may unto thee,
      Their House of Mercy, come.

      2 Mercy then there is for me,
      (Away my doubts and fears!)
      Plagued with an infirmity
      For many tedious years.
      Jesu, cast a pitying eye!
      Thou long hast known my desperate case;
      Poor and helpless here I lie,
      And wait the healing grace.

      3 Long hath thy good Spirit strove
      With my distempered soul,
      But I still refused thy love,
      And would not be made whole;
      Hardly now at last I yield,
      I yield with all my sins to part;
      Let my soul be fully healed,
      And throughly cleansed my heart.

      4 Pain and sickness, at thy word,
      And sin, and sorrow flies:
      Speak to me, Almighty Lord,
      And bid my spirit rise!
      Bid me bear the hallowed cross,
      Which thou, my Lord, hast borne before;
      Walk in all thy righteous laws,
      And go and sin no more.