Wesley Corpus

Redemption Found. From the German [Johann Andreas Rothe] Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Part II. Redemption Found. From the German.40 Now I have found the ground, wherein Sure my soul’s anchor may remain, The wounds of Jesus, for my sin Before the world’s foundation slain: Whose mercy shall unshaken stay, When heaven and earth are fled away. Father, thy everlasting grace Our scanty thought surpasses far: Thy heart still melts with tenderness, Thy arms of love still open are Returning sinners to receive, That mercy they may taste, and live. 40Source: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, ed. Das Gesang-Buch der Gemeine in Herrn-Huth (Halle: Wäysenhaus, 1737), 249-50 (#255, by Johann Andreas Rothe). O love, thou bottomless abyss! My sins are swallow’d up in thee: Cover’d is my unrighteousness, Nor spot of guilt remains in me, While Jesu’s blood, thro’ earth and skies, Mercy, free, boundless mercy cries! With faith I plunge me in this sea; Here is my hope, my joy, my rest! Hither, when hell assails, I flee, I look into my Saviour’s breast! Away, sad doubt, and anxious fear! Mercy is all that’s written there. Tho’ waves and storms go o’er my head, Tho’ strength, and health, and friends be gone, Tho’ joys be wither’d all, and dead, Tho’ every comfort be withdrawn, On this my stedfast soul relies, Father, thy mercy never dies. Fix’d on this ground will I remain, Tho’ my heart fail, and flesh decay: This anchor shall my soul sustain, When earth’s foundations melt away; Mercy’s full power I then shall prove, Lov’d with an everlasting love.