Nor of fitness fondly dream;
All the fitness He requireth
Is to feel your need of Him.
During Passion Week, 1767, he had an amazing view of the sufferings of Christ, under the stress of which his heart was changed. In the joy of this experience he wrote—
Come ye sinners poor and needy,
—and—
Come all ye chosen saints of God.
Probably no two hymn-lines have been oftener repeated than—
If you tarry till you're better
You will never come at all.