A rich man saved! it cannot be, till sovereign grace

A rich man sav’d! it cannot be,
Till sovereign Grace his heart incline:
But then th’ impossibility
Is done by Christ, the Power Divine,
The chief of publicans believes,
The sinners chief his Lord receives.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, there was a certain man named Zaccheus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.’—[Luke 19,] v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 262.
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