Wesley Corpus

A Collection of Hymns (1780)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-collection
Year1780
Passage IDcw-hymns-1780-022
Words389
Sourcehttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html
Christology
6 O unexampled love ! O all-redeeming grace ! How swiftly didst thou move To save a fallen race ! What shall I do to make it known What thou for all mankind hast done? 7 O for a trumpet -voice, On all the world to call ! To bid their hearts rejoice In him who died for all ! For all my Lord was crucified : For all, for all my Saviour died ! HYMN 35. c. m. 1 TESUS, thou all-redeeming Lord, *J Thy blessing we implore ; Open the door to preach thy word, The great effectual door. 2 Gather the outcasts in, and save From sin and Satan's power ; And let them now acceptance have, And know their gracious hour. 3 Lover of souls ! thou know'st to prize What thou hast bought so dear ; Come then, and in thy people's eyes With all thy wounds appear. 4 Appear, as when of old confest The suffering Son of God ; And let them see thee in thy vest But newly dipt in blood. The Goodness of God. Oz) 5 The hardness from their hearts remove, Thou who for all hast died ; Show them the tokens of thy love, Thy feet, thy hands, thy side. 6 Thy feet were nail'd to yonder tree, To trample down their sin : Thy hands stretch'd out they all may see, To take thy murderers in. 7 Thy side an open fountain is, Where all may freely go, And drink the living streams of bliss, And wash them white as snow. 8 Ready thou art the blood to' apply, And prove the record true ; And all thy wounds to sinners cry, " I suffer'd this for you !" HYMN 36. c. m. 1 T OVERS of pleasure more than God, -■-- i For you he suffer'd pain ; Swearers, for you he spilt his blood : And shall he bleed in vain ? 2 Misers, for you his life he paid ; Your basest crime he bore : Drunkards ! your sins on him were laid, That you might sin no more. 3 The God of love, to earth he came, That you might come to heaven ; Believe, believe in Jesu's Name, And all your sin's forgiven. 4 Believe in him that died for thee,