Justice He could not obtain

Verse 1
Justice none could He obtain
In his humble state beneath,
No humanity from man,
No relief—but pain and death,
Took from earth, He of our sins
Doth the chastisement receive,
Endless life’s immortal Prince
Dies, that all mankind may live.

Verse 2
Who can count his worshippers,
Offspring of the slaughter’d Lamb?
Only He that tells the stars,
He that calls them each by name
Written in thy book above
All thy saints are known to Thee:
God of unexhausted love,
Find with them a place for me!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘In his humiliation his judgment was taken away? And who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.’—[Acts 8,] v. 33.” This hymn 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 227.
Publishing: Public Domain