Fain would I my Redeemer see,
As when extended on the tree
He groan’d beneath my sinful load,
He pour’d out all his guiltless blood;
Above, I want this only sight,
To view the Lamb in his own light,
T’ adore the lustre of those scars
Which brightens all the morning-stars!
Fain would I my Redeemer
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We would see Jesus.”—[John] xii. 21. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 488. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 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.
Publishing: Public Domain