A convert purged of all his stains

Verse 1
A convert purg’d from all his stains,
Of his old cancel’d sins retains
The mournful memory;
My God, he cries, hath mercy shewn,
And saved, for Jesus sake alone,
The chief of sinners, me.

Verse 2
Superior grace he cannot boast,
But self-abhor’d, as in the dust,
Doth still his sins confess,
Less than the least in his own eyes,
Weeping at Jesus’ feet he lies,
And humbled all his days.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting &c.’—[Acts 22,] v. 20." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 398.
Publishing: Public Domain