Lyrics: For this into their hands He goes - Charles Wesley

For this into their hands He goes

For this into their hands He goes,
Gives himself up, to save his foes,
By dying in their place:
The voluntary Victim dies,
And thro’ one bloody sacrifice
Atones for all our race.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Master, the Jews sought of late to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?’—[John 11,] v. 8." 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 469.

Publishing: Public Domain