Whene’er Thou dost a sinner heal

Whene’er Thou dost a sinner heal
Languid, and weary, and opprest,
His pardon he exults to feel,
Enters into that sacred rest,
And antedates the joy above,
The sabbath of eternal Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And on the same day was the sabbath.’—[John 5,] v. 9." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 366.
Publishing: Public Domain