How lost was my condition

How lost was my condition. John Newton* (1725-1807).  From Olney Hymns (1779), Book I, ‘On select Texts of Scripture’. It was Hymn 62, entitled ‘The good Physician’. The text on which is was based is (unusually) not given, but it comes after a hymn on Isaiah 45: 22 and before a hymn in Isaiah 54: 5-11. There is no physician in the intervening chapters, but it is a very general hymn on the power of Jesus to heal the sin-sick soul (cf. Jeremiah 8: 22, Mark 2: 17). It had five stanzas in 1779: 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,...