Didst Thou not leave thy Father’s throne
To save thy people from their sin?
Assure our hearts, the work is done,
And tell us, Lord, we now are clean;
Cleans’d by the Spirit and the word
Give us in all thy steps to tread,
As followers of our holy Lord,
As members of our sinless Head.
Didst Thou not leave Thy Father’s Throne
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And ye are clean.’—[John 13,] v. 10." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 503.
Publishing: Public Domain