The bowels of that Shepherd good
Who purchas’d Israel with his blood
What tongue can fully tell?
He leaves the ninety-nine behind,
One single, stragling sheep to find,
One tortur’d soul to heal.
The bowels of that Shepherd good
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 291.
Publishing: Public Domain