By water He came, and by blood,
My God who on Calvary died,
A fountain of purity flow’d,
A river of life from his side:
The water it washes our hearts,
The blood for our sins did atone,
And when He his Spirit imparts,
We feel, the two currents are one.
By water He came, and by blood
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This is He that came by water and blood.’—[1 John] 5:6.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 474.
Publishing: Public Domain