Full of unutterable grace
Thus the true King of Israel prays,
That those who seek his life may live,
Father, my murtherers forgive,
Deal gently with them, for my sake,
And to thine arms the rebels take.
Full of unutterable grace, Thus the true King
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.”—[II. Sam.] xviii. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 171.
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