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Luke 7:49: Who is this that sin forgives
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Who is this that sin forgives?
A mere mortal sinful man,
Who his power from Rome receives,
Forms, and absolutions vain?
No; the power is God's alone;
God it is that justifies,
He who did for sin atone.
He the precious grace applies.
Who is this that sin forgives.
Now as yesterday the same?
Ask the sinner that believes.
Well he knows his Saviour's name;
Jesus bought the grace with blood,
Our infallible High-Priest,
Jesus is our pardoning God,
God supreme for ever bless'd.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 7:49: Who is this that sin forgives.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5135/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 7:49: Who is this that sin forgives.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5135/.
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