{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"010 Written In The Beginning Of A Recovery From Sickness","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1739","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness","passage_ids":["cw-010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness-full"],"word_count":253,"themes_auto":["christology","free-will","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-010-written-in-the-beginning-of-a-recovery-from-sickness","source_title":"010 Written In The Beginning Of A Recovery From Sickness","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Written in the Beginning of a Recovery from Sickness Recovery from Sickness. 1 Peace, flutt'ring soul! The storm is o'er, Ended at last the doubtful9 strife: Respiring now, the cause explore That bound thee to a wretched life. 2 When on the margin of the grave, Why did I doubt my Saviour's art? Ah! Why mistrust his will to save? What meant that fault'ring of my heart? 3 'Twas not the searching pain within That fill'd my coward flesh with fear; Nor conscience of uncancel'd sin;10 Nor sense of dissolution near. 9Ori., \"doubtless\"; corrected 3rd edn. (1739) by ms. insert; and in 4th edn. (1743) and 5th edn. (1756). 10Changed to read \"Nor consciousness of outward sin\" in 4th edn. (1743) and 5th edn. (1756). 4 Of hope I felt no joyful ground, The fruit of righteousness alone; Naked of Christ my soul I found, And started from a God unknown. 5 Corrupt my will, nor half subdu'd, Could I his purer presence bear? Unchang'd, unhallow'd, unrenew'd Could I before his face appear? 6 Father of mercies, hear my call! Ere yet returns the fatal hour, Repair my loss, retrieve my fall, And raise me by thy quick'ning pow'r. 7 My nature re-exchange for thine; Be thou my life, my hope, my gain; Arm me in panoply divine, And death shall shake his dart in vain. 8 When I thy promis'd Christ have seen, And clasp'd him in my soul's embrace, Possest of my salvation, then Then, let me, Lord, depart in peace!","word_count":253,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","reign-of-god","free-will"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:01.837084"}]}