In Thy state of exaltation

Verse 1
By his own almighty Spirit
God hath glorified his Son:
Pardon’d now thro’ Jesus’ merit
Sinners [Penitents] approach his throne:
Christ bestows the true contrition,
Makes us feel our soul-disease,
Then appearing our Physician
Heals, and bids us go in peace.

Verse 2
In thy state of exaltation,
Answer, Lord, its end on me,
Thou the God of my salvation
Thou my Prince and Ruler be:
Let me first, the true repentance,
Self-condemn’d, from Thee receive;
Then reverse the fearful sentence,
Bid thy pardon’d rebel live.

Hymnal/Album: Verse 2 was originally published separately, titled “Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of sins.”—[Acts] v. 31. This verse was introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He expanded it several years later by adding a new first verse, moving the original sole verse to second. This expanded, full version appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 191.
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