It is typically sung in four stanzas, although sometimes the third (“Thou, O Christ, art all I want”) is omitted. This hymn originally had five stanzas, but one (“Wilt Thou not regard my call?”) is never sung. Nevertheless, it has survived and remains well-known. John Wesley did not publish it in his later hymnals, perhaps because its language was too pietistic and too intimate for public worship, concerns which other hymnal editors have shared but this is only speculation. Charles Wesley was converted in 1738, and wrote this hymn shortly thereafter it was published under the title “In Temptation” in 1740 by the Wesley brothers in Hymns and Sacred Poems.