A vessel of meer mercy I
By mercy live, tho’ doom’d to die,
I live, thine image to regain,
Thy bowels toward the sons of men;
To prove that I my Father know,
Thy brightest character to show,
While all my blood-bought brethren see
Our God is Love, and dwells in me.
A vessel of mere mercy I
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful.'—[Luke 6,] v. 36.” 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 155.
Publishing: Public Domain