Religion
Luke 7:12: We here the sinner's history read
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
We here the sinner's history read,
Who dead in sin, and doubly dead
Is carrying to the tomb;
Happy, before he reach the pit.
If Jesus the procession meet,
And to his rescue come.
FoUow'd, and by the church deplored,
(That widow of her heavenly Lord,)
Insensible he lies;
U'he mother sad with pious tears
Bewails her son, till Christ appears,
And bids the dead arise.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 7:12: We here the sinner's history read.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5120/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 7:12: We here the sinner's history read.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5120/.
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