Sinners the Lord our God receives,
And never partially forgives,
Whate’er our sins, he pardons all,
The great as freely as the small,
When humbly we confess the debt,
And beg forbearance at his feet.
Sinners the Lord our God receives
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He loosed him, and forgave him the debt.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 27.” 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 319.
Publishing: Public Domain