More precious than the gold and gems

Verse 1
More pretious than the gold and gems
That shine in earthly diadems,
The thorns of Jesus crown,
Stain’d with the blood of God, they pay
The debt of all mankind, and lay
The general ransom down.

Verse 2
A rich inheritance they buy,
Eternal mansions in the sky
For Adam’s favour’d race:
And every ransom’d soul with me
By faith thy mangled form may see,
And then thy glorious face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!’—John 19, v. 5." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 80.
Publishing: Public Domain