Bound he is, yet truly free

Verse 1
Bound he is, yet truly free,
Bound for his Redeemer’s sake,
Him who suffering on the tree
Did for all atonement make;
Doth to every sinner bring
Pardon in his sprinkled blood,
Christ, the Prophet, Priest, and King,
Israel’s Hope, and Israel’s God.

Verse 2
On this only ground relies
Every soul that faith receives,
Jesus, my Redeemer, dies,
Jesus, my Redeemer, lives;
Lives, that I and all mankind
May, to liberty restor’d,
Fulness of salvation find,
Live forever with our Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.’—[Acts 28,] v. 20." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 451.
Publishing: Public Domain