Saviour of all, by God design’d

Verse 1
Saviour of all, by God design’d
Our loss of Eden to retrieve,
Mighty restorer of mankind,
In whom we all, tho’ dead, may live:

Verse 2
In rapture lost, on thee I gaze,
Thy universal goodness prove,
Adore the riches of thy grace,
And triumph in thy boundless love.

Verse 3
Rest to my soul I now have found,
My interest in thy blood I see;
On this my confidence I ground,
Who died for all, hath died for me!

Verse 4
For me, for me the Saviour died!
Surely thy grace for all is free:
I feel it now by faith applied:
Who died for all, hath died for me!

Verse 5
No dire decree obtain’d thy seal,
Or fix’d th’ unalterable doom,
Consign’d my unborn soul to hell,
Or damn’d me from my mother’s womb.

Verse 6
Who that beholds thy lovely face,
Can doubt, if all thy grace may share:
So strong the lines of general grace—
Grace, grace is all that’s written there.

Verse 7
Loving to every man thou art!
Sinners, ye all his grace may prove;
He bears you all upon his heart:
God is not HATE, but God is LOVE!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Universal Redemption." Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is more likely than not that Charles wrote it but not certain. Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 32.
Publishing: Public Domain