Say, thou Almighty Jesus

Verse 1
Say, thou Almighty Jesus,
If Jesus is thy name,
How long shall sin oppress us,
Our burthen, grief, and shame?
How long shall we go mourning
With short, repentance vain,
And to our vomit turning
Implunge in guilt again?

Verse 2
Thou art a present Saviour
Of them that can believe,
Thy property is ever
To pity, and forgive;
Thy bowels of compassion
To helpless sinners move,
Thine office is Salvation
And all thy heart is love.

Verse 3
My Friend and Mediator
O had I faith to see!
Jesus, display thy nature,
Answer thy name on me
My long-imprison’d spirit
Release, and bring to God,
As ransom’d by thy merit,
And pardon’d thro’ thy blood.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 165.
Publishing: Public Domain