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.