A sinner saved through Jesus grace

Verse 1
A sinner, sav’d thro’ Jesus grace,
Will never his past sin forget,
Or claim the most exalted place,
But humbled at his Saviour’s feet
With deeper shame his vileness own,
And glory give to God alone.

Verse 2
If call’d his office to extol,
Himself he cannot magnify;
The Lord, he cries, be all in all
A sinner, and their chief, am I,
A Saul, a murtherer forgiven,
Worthy of hell, I sink’—to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I am not meet to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.’—[1 Cor.] 15:9.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 37.
Publishing: Public Domain