LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 8 8 extended
| | Writer(s): | Charles Wesley
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| | 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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| 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! :|
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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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