Sinners, the Promise is for you,
Whoe’er believe that God is true,
And will to man his Spirit give:
Your day of Pentecost is near,
And while the joyful news ye hear,
Ye shall the Holy Ghost receive:
Impower’d of Christ to testify,
The Saviour-Prince, the Lord Most-high,
The great omnipotent I AM,
The glorious God of truth and grace,
The Friend of all our pardon’d race,
Ye shall in life and death proclaim.
Sinners, the Promise is for you
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But ye shall receive power, the Holy Ghost being come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me &c.’—[Acts 1,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 285–86.
Publishing: Public Domain