Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Physician of my sin-sick soul
Topic: Repenting Sinner
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 30
Page Number: 035, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPhysician of my sin-sick soul,
To thee I bring my case;
My raging malady control,
And heal me by thy grace.
Pity the anguish I endure,
See how I mourn and pine;
For never can I hope a cure,
From any hand but thine.
I would disclose my whole complaint,
But where shall I begin?
No words of mine can fully paint
That worst distemper, sin.
It makes me deaf, and dumb, and blind,
And impotent, and lame,
And overclouds and fills my mind,
With folly, fear and shame.
A thousand evil thoughts intrude,
Tumultuous, in my breast,
Which indispose me for my food,
And rob me of my rest.
Lord, I am sick - regard my cry,
And set my spirit free;
Say, canst thou let a sinner die,
Who longs to live with thee?