Adorable captivity
Which sets a world of prisoners free
From sin and Satan’s iron chain!
Our souls Thou offer’st to release;
Pardon, and liberty, and peace
We all may thro’ thy bonds obtain.
Jesus, thy dear redeeming grace
By faith we thankfully embrace,
Injoy our perfect freedom here,
Servants of righteousness we rise,
As sons of God regain the skies,
As heirs at thy right hand appear.
Adorable captivity
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then the band, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him.’—[John 18,] v. 12." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 70.
Publishing: Public Domain