Wesley Corpus

Universal Redemption (Another 1) Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Another [Universal Redemption].60 Father, whose hand on all bestows Sufficiency of saving grace, Whose universal love o’erflows The whole of Adam’s fallen race; Within no narrow bounds confin’d, The vast, unfathomable sea Swells, and embraces all mankind-- For, O my God, it reach’d to me! If I could hear thy quick’ning call, Then all may seek, and find thee too; Surely thou loving art to all, And I stand forth to prove it true. Was there a man thou doom’st to die, How justly then might I despair! For who so vile a wretch as I? For who so bold his God to dare? Was there a single soul decreed Thy unrelenting hate to know, Then I were he--and well might dread The horrors of eternal woe. 60Omitted from 4th edn. (1743) and following. But O in vain the tempter tries To shake the Rock that ne’er shall move; My stedfast soul his power defies, Secure in this, that God is love. Whoe’er admits; my soul disowns The image of a tort’ring God, Well-pleas’d with human shrieks and groans, A fiend, a Molock gorg’d with blood! Good God! That any child of thine, So horribly should think of thee! Lo! All my hopes I here resign, If all may not find grace with me. If fury can in thee have place, Empty it on my helpless head, Cut off, exclude me from thy grace, Unless for all the Saviour bled. If all may not thy mercy claim, On me the vengeful bolt let fall, Take back my interest in the Lamb, Unless the victim died for all.