Religion
Luke 19: The Son of man is come to seek and to save
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Our whole apostate kind
May now salvation find:
Lost to every thought of good.
Lost as sheep that went astray,
Jesus brought us by His blood
Back into Himself the Way.
Us through rebellion lost
To save, His life it cost:
Lost through sin's most sore disease,
Gasping out our latest breath,
Jesus brought us health and ease,
Rescued from that second death.
From sin and misery
Come then and rescue me.
Come my wandering soul to seek.
Come my sin-sick soul to heal.
All my guilty fetters break,
All Thy saving grace reveal.
Still let Thy grace abound
To me a sinner found:
Equal need I always have
To be sought and found by Thee:
Now, and every moment save,
Save through all eternity.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 19: The Son of man is come to seek and to save.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5332/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 19: The Son of man is come to seek and to save.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5332/.
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