Bondmen indeed! Too long we liv’d,
In Egypt’s iron furnace bound,
And then, the thralls of Babel, griev’d,
’Till love divine a ransom found,
Pitied our sore captivity,
And died himself, to set us free.
Bondmen indeed! too long we liv’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We were bondmen, yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us.”—[Ezra] ix. 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 222.
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