Religion

Acts 26:16: Thou who hast cast me down

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)

Religion

Thou who hast cast me down
By unresisted grace,
To make Thy mercy known
A grovelling sinner raise;
And lo, with strength Divine I stand,
And walk and run at Thy command.

Jesus to me appear
The Son of God and man,
Thy chosen minister
And witness to ordain;
Who cannot testify of Thee,
Unless Thou show Thyself to me.

No vision of my God
But that of faith I need,
Faith in the' atoning blood
For dying sinners shed;
I want to feel the blood applied,
To see the Lamb as crucified.

Soon as Thy wounds I see,
And my Redeemer know,
Thy death reveal'd in me
I will to others show,
And every fresh display of grace
Proclaim to all the ransom'd race.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 26:16: Thou who hast cast me down.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6721/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Acts 26:16: Thou who hast cast me down.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6721/.

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