Saviour, let thy dying love
Its virtue still exert,
Earth to its foundations move,
And break the rocky heart;
Sinners by thy passion shake,
The most obdurate spirits rent,
By thy death the dead awake,
And bid the world repent.
Saviour, let Thy dying love
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The earth did quake, and the rocks rent.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 51.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 432.
Publishing: Public Domain