Rival meek of Jesus passion,
Lo, the lamblike victim bleeds,
Breath[e]s the final supplication,
For his murtherers interceeds,
Loudly in his Spirit crying
Thro’ whose only death we live,
Echoes the Redeemer dying,
Bows his head, and gasps Forgive!
Rival meek of Jesu’s passion
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.’—[Acts 7,] v. 60.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 218.
Publishing: Public Domain