The only sinless Man and just,
He cannot mix with common dust,
But born of a pure virgin’s womb,
Must rise out of a virgin-tomb:
The tomb is new, where Christ is laid,
New is the heart for Jesus made,
And all his purity receives,
While God in man forever lives.
The only sinless Man and just
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘In the garden was a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.’—[John 19,] v. 41." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 92.
Publishing: Public Domain