A sinner, tho’ he truly know
His sins thro’ Jesus’ grace forgiven,
If mercy he refuse to show,
He irritates both earth and heaven:
The saints in that great day shall rise
’Gainst every soul implacable,
And praise the vengence of the skies
Which dooms the merciless to hell.
A sinner, though he truly know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘His fellow-servants were very sorry, and came and told unto their Lord all that was done.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 31.” 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 320.
Publishing: Public Domain