He shuns His murderers no more

He shuns his murtherers no more,
But goes at God’s appointed hour
To lay the ransom down,
He goes to suffer in our stead,
And, life restoring to the dead,
Surrenders up his own.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Let us also go into Judea again.’—[John 11,] v. 7." 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