Religion

Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 120

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745) · Osborn ed., vol. 3 (1869)

Religion

Father, see the Victim slain,
Jesus Christ, the just, the good,
Offer'd up for guilty man,
Pouring out His precious blood;
Him, and then the sinner see,
Look through Jesu's wounds on me.

Me, the sinner most distrest,
Most afflicted and forlorn,
Stranger to a moment's rest,
Rueing that I e'er was born,
Pierced with sin's envenom'd dart,
Dying, of a broken heart.

Dying, whom Thy hands have made
All Thy blessings to receive;
Dying, whom Thy love hath stay'd,
Whom Thy pity would have live;
Dying at my Saviour's side,
Dying, for whom Christ hath died.

Can it, Father, can it be?
What doth Jesu's blood reply?
If it doth not plead for me,
Let my soul for ever die;
But if mine through Him Thou art.
Speak the pardon to my heart.

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Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 120.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/535/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 120.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/535/.

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