Mystery of amazing grace!
Heaven’s offended majesty
Sues to the offending race,
“Pray be reconcil’d to me,
Me, who all your evil know,
Me, already pacified,
Me, who liv’d, a Man of Woe,
Me, who for my rebels died!”
Mystery of amazing grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”—[2 Cor.] v. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 49.
Publishing: Public Domain