Because Thou sav’st us from our fall

Verse 1
Because Thou sav’st us from our fall,
Thy foes against thy life conspire,
Because Thou dost thy Father call
Thy proper, own, eternal Sire:
Thou dost thy Godhead testify,
Thy power divine on sinners prove,
An Equal of the Lord most-high,
A Martyr both of truth and love.

Verse 2
Tis thus the world thy love repays,
Which makes to dying sinners known
The truth that saves our ruin’d race,
Uplifting rebels to a throne:
And all who dare the truth defend
The treatment of their Lord receive,
And all who on their God depend
Are deem’d by man not fit to live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him &c.’—[John 5,] v. 18." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 369.
Publishing: Public Domain