God over all, for ever blessed, A curse and sin for sinners made

Verse 1
God over all, for ever blest,
A curse and sin for sinners made,
By a whole world of guilt opprest,
Who hast the general ransom paid,
Redeem’d us from the curse of God,
And bought the grace with all thy blood;

Verse 2
The gift unspeakable procur’d
For Adam’s race, on us bestow,
Who long, by grace divine assur’d,
Redemption in thy blood to know,
And taste our purchas’d liberty,
From curse, and sin for ever free.

Verse 3
The promise sure to Abraham made,
For every ransom’d soul design’d,
Be it into our souls convey’d,
The blessing bought for all mankind
O might we now thro’ faith receive,
And happy in thy Spirit live!

Verse 4
The gift, the blessing, and the grace,
The precious promises in one,
Jesus, our faithful hearts embrace
Compriz’d, fulfill’d in Thee alone,
Fulness of Deity we prove,
And all the heights and depths of Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Christ had redeemed us from the curse of the law &c.’—Gal. 3:15.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 63.
Publishing: Public Domain