The Olney Hymns, Book 1, #62, “The Good Physician” by John Newton, English Anglican clergyman (1725 – 1807)
The music for this reading is “Rainbow” by Borrtex and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
How lost was my condition,
Till Jesus made me whole !
There is but one Physician
Can cure a sin-sick soul !
Next door to death He found me,
And snatch’d me from the grave;
To tell to all around me
His wondrous power to save.
The worst of all diseases
Is light compared with sin;
On every part it seizes,
But rages most within :
‘Tis palsy, dropsy, fever,
And madness—all combined;
And none but a believer
The least relief can find.
From men great skill professing
I thought a cure to gain;
But this proved more distressing,
And added to my pain.
Some said that nothing ail’d me,
Some gave me up for lost;
Thus every refuge fail’d me,
And all my hopes were cross’d.
At length this great Physician
(How matchless is His grace !)
Accepted my petition,
And undertook my case :
First gave me sight to view Him,
For sin my eyes had seal’d; –
Then bid me look unto Him,—
I look’d, and I was heal’d.
A dying, risen Jesus,
Seen by the eye of faith,
At once from anguish frees us,
And saves the soul from death.
Come, then, to this Physician,
His help He’ll freely give-;
He makes no hard condition,
‘Tis only—Look and live!
