Thou didst not send thy Son

Verse 1
Thou didst not send thy Son
To aggravate our guilt,
But for the sins of all t’ atone
His precious blood was spilt:
Not as our Judge he came,
But our Redeemer kind,
That all believing in his name,
May life and pardon find.

Verse 2
Thou didst thy Son bestow,
Thy truth of grace to prove,
And Jesus did by dying show
Sincerity of love:
He suffer’d in our place,
By mercy’s sole decree:
Know every child of Adam’s race,
Thy Saviour died for thee!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world: but that the world through him might be saved.’—[John 3,] v. 17." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 222. 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 346.
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