O all-loving Lamb, a sinner I am

Verse 1
O all-loving Lamb,
A sinner I am,
And come as a sinner thy mercy to claim.

Verse 2
With joy I embrace
The pardon and grace
Thy passion hath purchas’d for all the lost race.

Verse 3
For sinners like me
Thy mercy is free:
O who would not love such a Saviour as thee?

Verse 4
Yet long I withstood,
And fled from my God,
But mercy pursu’d with the cry of thy blood;

Verse 5
It challeng’d its stray,
And forc’d me to stay,
And wash’d all my sins in a moment away.

Verse 6
I felt it applied,
And joyfully cried,
Me, me thou hast lov’d, and for me thou hast died!

Verse 7
How mighty thou art,
O love to convert!
Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart.

Verse 8
The love of God-man
Alone could constrain
So sturdy a rebel to love thee again.

Verse 9
But surely at[1] last
Thy goodness I taste;
My soul on thy goodness delighted I cast.

Verse 10
Thy goodness I praise,
I sing of thy grace,
And joyfully live out my few happy days.

Verse 11
And when thy dear love
From earth shall remove,
O then I shall sing like the angels above.

Verse 12
Yet there when I am,
My work is the same,
To ascribe my salvation to God, and the Lamb.

Verse 13
Salvation to God
Will I publish abroad,
And make heaven ring with the cry of thy blood.

Verse 14
The Lamb that was slain,
Lo! He liveth again,
And I with my Jesus eternally reign.

[1] Wesley changed “surely at” to “sure at the” in 1761.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns for Those That Seek and Those That Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (William Strahan, 1747). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 273.
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