Life to a soul if Jesus give

Verse 1
Life to a soul if Jesus give,
He will not then neglect and leave
His Lazarus restor’d,
But visits and confirms the grace,
The tender life of righteousness,
And feeds him with the word.

Verse 2
The sinner sav’d is Jesus guest,
(Whose presence makes th’ angelic feast,
Whose glory fills the skies:)
He banquets on redeeming love,
Nor envies those he left above,
The saints in paradise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead.’—[John 12,] v. 1 &c." 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 483.
Publishing: Public Domain