Whoe’er rejects Thy sacrifice

Verse 1
Whoe’er rejects thy sacrifice,
Disdaining to be sav’d by Thee,
The Spirit of holiness decries,
The fulness of the Deity;
Which dwells for man in Thee alone,
Who scorns that It in him should dwell,
In spite of all thy love hath done,
He will his own damnation seal.

Verse 2
But O, my Lord and God Thou art,
Thou hast the Spirit to confer,
Who sprinkles with thy blood my heart,
Renews me in thine image here:
Jesus, the purchase of thy death,
The Spirit pure of ripest grace
Into my panting bosom breathe,
And fit me thus to see thy face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.’—[Mark 3,] v. 29, 30.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 470.
Publishing: Public Domain