Would the great God his rebels spare,
According to a creature’s word?
He heard his Son in Moses’ prayer:
And still he hears our pleading Lord:
The prayer of but one righteous man,
If Jesus in his servant breathe,
Can the Almighty’s wrath restrain,
And millions save from endless death.
Would the great God His rebels spare
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have pardoned according to thy word.”—[Num.] xiv. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 77.
Publishing: Public Domain