From Thee his favorite, why

Verse 1
From Thee his fav’rite, why
Doth God his face conceal?
Because He would not have us die,
The world he lov’d so well:
Because in love with pain
Thou dost for sinners bleed,
Thyself abandon to be slain
A Victim in our stead.

Verse 2
Casting a dying look
Thy God thou cou’dst not find,
Because thy Spirit had forsook
Our whole apostate kind,
Nor could our fallen race
Rise and return to God,
Or e’er retrieve thy Spirit’s grace,
But thro’ thy sprinkled blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!’—Mark 15, v. 34.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 68-69. Verse 2 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 90.
Publishing: Public Domain