{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/012-a-prayer-under-convictions","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"012 A Prayer Under Convictions","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-012-a-prayer-under-convictions","passage_ids":["cw-012-a-prayer-under-convictions-full"],"word_count":335,"themes_auto":["assurance","experience","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-012-a-prayer-under-convictions-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-012-a-prayer-under-convictions-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-012-a-prayer-under-convictions","source_title":"012 A Prayer Under Convictions","source_type":"hymn","year":1739,"chunk_index":0,"text":"A Prayer Under Convictions 1 Father of light,11 from whom proceeds Whate'er thy ev'ry creature needs, Whose goodness providently nigh Feeds the young ravens when they cry; To thee I look; my heart prepare, Suggest, and hearken to my pray'r. 2 Since by thy light myself I see Naked, and poor, and void of thee, Thine eyes must all my thoughts survey, Preventing what my lips would say: Thou seest my wants; for help they call, And ere I speak, thou know'st them all. 3 Thou know'st the baseness of my mind Wayward, and impotent and blind, Thou know'st how unsubdu'd my will, Averse to good, and prone to ill: Thou know'st how wide my passions rove, Nor check'd by fear, nor charm'd by love. 4 Fain would I know, as known by thee, And feel the indigence I see; Fain would I all my vileness own, And deep beneath the burden groan: Abhor the pride that lurks within, Detest and loath myself and sin. 11Only the 2nd edn. (1739) uses \"Father of lights,\" as in James 1:17. 5 Ah give me, Lord, myself to feel, My total misery reveal: Ah give me, Lord, (I still would say) A heart to mourn, a heart to pray; My business this, my only care, My life, my ev'ry breath be pray'r. 6 Scarce I begin my sad complaint, When all my warmest wishes faint; Hardly I lift my weeping eye, When all my kindling ardors die; Nor hopes nor fears my bosom move, For still I cannot, cannot love. 7 Father, I want a thankful heart; I want to taste how good thou art, To plunge me in thy mercy's sea, And comprehend thy love to me; The breadth, and length, and depth, and height Of love divinely infinite. 8 Father, I long my soul to raise And dwell for ever on thy praise, Thy praise with glorious joy to tell, In extasy unspeakable; While the full pow'r of FAITH I know, And reign triumphant here below.","word_count":335,"source_url":null,"themes":["experience","assurance","social-holiness"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T16:57:02.821875"}]}