Thou hast took us by the hand,
Who didst our nature take;
Son of God and man command
The dead in sin to wake:
Sinners from the bed, the bier,
The tomb, a word of thine can raise:
O that all thy voice might hear,
And live the life of grace!
Thou hast took us by the hand
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.'—[Luke 8,] v. 54.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 176.
Publishing: Public Domain