For evil in a garden done
Christ in a garden must atone:
Freely he comes, by suffering there,
Our loss of Eden to repair,
Bears in the memorable place
The sins of our devoted race,
Takes on himself the wrath of God,
To quench it with his tears and blood.
For evil in a garden done
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Where was a garden, into the which he entred and his disciples.’—[John 18,] v. 1." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 65.
Publishing: Public Domain