Be this our only crime, To trust

Verse 1
Be this our only crime, To trust
In Christ the Lord, the promis’d Seed,
Who rose to animate our dust,
(But first to raise our spirits dead)
By Love divine on all bestow’d,
That all may live, enthron’d with God.

Verse 2
The promise to our fathers made,
Is to their faithful offspring sure,
On this our stedfast hope is stay’d,
And all that to the end endure,
Suffering with Christ, with Christ shall rise,
And grasp thro’ death th’ immortal prize.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And now I am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers.’—[Acts 26,] v. 6." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 425.
Publishing: Public Domain