Jesus, the merciful and true,
Between the dead and living stand,
The numerous dead, the living few
Who now divide Britannia’s land!
Thou dost as in the midst appear,
Thou hast for all atonement made,
And thro’ the incense of thy prayer
The plague of unbelief is stayed.
Jesus, the merciful and true
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed.”—[Num.] xvi. 48. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 80.
Publishing: Public Domain