Beneath my sins He bow’d his head,
My sins, and those of all mankind!
His soul a victim in our stead
Into his Father’s hands resign’d!
Th’ immortal God, he breath’d his last!
The sight all earth and heaven amaz’d:
Their silent harps aside they cast,
And angels trembled as they gaz’d.
Beneath my sins He bowed His head
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus when he had cried again with a loud cry, yielded up the ghost (Gr., dismissed his spirit).’—Matt. 27, v. 50].” 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 431.
Publishing: Public Domain