But we a mighty Daysman know

Verse 1
But we a mighty daysman know,
By love divine to sinners given,
The Lord of all who dwelt below,
And mediates betwixt earth and heaven:
Of both the nature he partakes,
United in himself alone,
An end of all the difference makes,
For God and man in Christ are one.

Verse 2
Thou, Jesus, thou that umpire art,
Whose hand on man and God is laid:
Assure a trembling sinner’s heart,
My sin is purg’d, my peace is made:
Thou who hast apprehended me,
Give me thyself to apprehend:
My peace, my sole perfection be,
My present and eternal friend.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.”—[Job] ix. 33. 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 239.
Publishing: Public Domain