LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 8 8 extended
| | Writer(s): | Charles Wesley
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1741,1780
| | Bible Refs: | Ez 33:11
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 33
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 185
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 173
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 324
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 185
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 349
| Eb
| Hymns and Songs
| 55
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Would Jesus have the sinner die?
Why hangs he then on yonder tree?
What means that strange expiring cry?
Sinners, he prays for you and me:
Forgive them, Father, O forgive!
|: They know not that by me they live. :|
2. Jesus descended from above,
Our loss of Eden to retrieve,
Great God of universal love,
If all the world through Thee may live,
In us a quickening Spirit be,
|: And witness Thou hast died for me! :|
3. Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb,
Thee—by thy painful agony,
Thy sweat of blood, thy grief and shame,
Thy cross and passion on the tree,
Thy precious death and life—I pray:
|: Take all, take all my sins away! :|
4. O let me kiss thy bleeding feet,
And bathe and wash them with my tears;
The story of thy love repeat
In every drooping sinner’s ears;
That all may hear the quickening sound,
|: Since I, even I, have mercy found. :|
5. O let thy love my heart control,
Thy love for every sinner free,
That every fallen human soul
May taste the grace that found out me;
That all mankind with me may prove
|: Thy sovereign, everlasting love! :|
6. **alt verses
7. O let Thy love my heart constrain!
Thy love for every sinner free,
That every fallen soul of man
May taste the grace that found out me;
That all mankind with me may prove
|: Thy sovereign everlasting love. :|
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