Be it to Adam’s offspring known!

Verse 1
Be it to Adam’s offspring known!
Redeem’d thro’ Jesus Christ alone
Ye all may boldly claim
A pardon purchas’d with his blood,
By his authority bestow’d,
And offer’d in his name.

Verse 2
By Him ye all are justified,
Thro’ his atoning blood applied
The benefit receive;
The Holy Ghost his peace imparts,
And writes forgiveness on your hearts,
The moment ye believe.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Be it known unto you, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him &c.’—[Acts 13,] v. 38, 39.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 356-57.
Publishing: Public Domain