All hail, Redeemer of Mankind!

Verse 1
All hail, Redeemer of mankind!
Thy life on Calvary resign’d
Did fully once for all atone,
Thy blood hath paid our utmost price,
Thine all-sufficient sacrifice
Remains eternally alone:
Angels and men might strive in vain,
They could not add the smallest grain
T’ augment thy death’s atoning power,
The sacrifice is all-compleat,
The death thou never canst repeat,
Once offer’d up to die no more.

Verse 2
Yet may we celebrate below,
And daily thus thine offering shew
Expos’d before thy Father’s eyes;
In this tremendous mystery
Present thee bleeding on the tree
Our everlasting sacrifice;
Father, behold thy dying Son!
Ev’n now he lays our ransom down,
Ev’n now declares our sins forgiven:
His flesh is rent, the living way
Is open’d to eternal day,
And lo, thro’ him we pass to heaven!

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 308.
Publishing: Public Domain