Sinners if Thou cam’st to call,
Surely, Lord, Thou cam’st for me:
Me uplift out of my fall,
Pardning my iniquity:
Pardon’d let me still repent,
Struck with deeper sorrow mourn,
Still my former sins lament,
Weeping to thy arms return.
Sinners if Thou cam’st to call
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’—[Mark 2,] v. 17.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 459.
Publishing: Public Domain