Sinners, a pardon I proclaim
Offer’d to all in Jesu’s name;
But know, the wickedest and worst
Shall have the gracious offer first.
Sinners, a pardon I proclaim
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Beginning at Jerusalem.”—[Luke] xxiv. 47. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 315.
Publishing: Public Domain