Father, see the Victim slain

Verse 1
Father see the victim slain,
Jesus Christ the just, the good,
Offer’d up for guilty man,
Pouring out his precious blood,
Him, and then the sinner see,
Look thro’ Jesu’s wounds on me.

Verse 2
Me, the sinner most distrest,
Most afflicted, and forlorn,
Stranger to a moment’s rest,
Ruing that I e’er was born,
Pierc’d with sin’s invenom’d dart,
Dying of a broken heart.

Verse 3
Dying, whom thy hands have made
All thy blessings to receive,
Dying, whom thy love hath stay’d,
Whom thy pity would have live,
Dying at my Saviour’s side,
Dying for whom Christ hath died.

Verse 4
Can it, Father, can it be?
What doth Jesu’s blood reply?
If it doth not plead for me,
Let my soul for ever die;
But if mine thro’ him thou art,
Speak the pardon to my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 304.
Publishing: Public Domain