But Life I see in death appear!

Verse 1
But Life I see in death appear!
The good Samaritan is near,
From heaven to earth he comes,
His country he for me forsakes,
Upon himself my nature takes,
And all my sins assumes.

Verse 2
Attach’d to earth he sees me lie,
He marks me with a pitying eye,
And all my wounds surveys:
Ev’n now his yearning bowels move,
His heart o’reflows with softest love,
And heaven is in his face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.’—[Luke 10,] v. 33.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 122.
Publishing: Public Domain