Hadst Thou not come to Adam’s race

Verse 1
Hadst Thou not come to Adam’s race,
And call’d them all to turn and live,
Offer’d thy free, sufficient grace
With power the pardon to receive,
They might have charg’d their death on Thee,
As reprobate by thy decree.

Verse 2
But who thy heavenly doctrine hear,
And view the wonders of thy power,
Yet will not their Creator fear,
Or Thee their Saviour-God adore,
They must their wilful folly own,
Undone; but by themselves undone.

Verse 3
No colour for their sin they have,
Their stubborn infidelity:
Thou dost declare thy will to save,
They will not thy salvation see,
But from thine arms of mercy fly,
And die, because resolv’d to die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If I had not come, and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.’—[John 15,] v. 22." 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 31.
Publishing: Public Domain