What help alas, or hope

Verse 1
What help alas, or hope
For sinners lost like you?
Condemn yourselves, to Christ look up,
Your Judge and Saviour too:
Your Advocate and Friend
The Prophets all proclaim,
Who saves the souls that dare depend
For pardon on his name.

Verse 2
Whoe’er in Him believes
Of all the ransom’d race
A pardon absolute receives
Thro’ his redeeming grace.—
I take him at his word,
On Jesus’ name rely,
And witness, that my pardning Lord
Doth freely justify!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins.’—[Acts 10,] v. 43.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 340.
Publishing: Public Domain