Jesus the Good Shepherd, Good

Jesus the good Shepherd, good
With Divine humanity,
Miss’d the purchase of his blood,
Left the ninety-nine for me:
Hurrying down th’ infernal way
Long his fugitive he sought,
Found at last his fainting stray,
Found, and to his bosom caught.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one &c.'—[Luke 15,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 233.
Publishing: Public Domain