Sinners, to God your Maker turn

Verse 1
Sinners, to God your Maker turn,
To God your End; and deeply mourn
Your past ingratitude!
The sum of all our teaching this,
Break off your sins, from evil cease,
And follow after good.

Verse 2
Repent in heart, and word, and deed;
The power that doth from Christ proceed
By change of life express,
The correspondent actions do,
And proving your repentance true
Awake to righteousness.

Verse 3
But rest not in the work begun,
Nor hope by works or tears t’ atone,
And buy your peace with God:
In Jesus seek the living Way:
Jehovah did on Jesus lay
The universal load.

Verse 4
Believe in God: believe in Him,
Who died the nations to redeem:
That you may live forgiven,
He tasted death for every soul:
Believe; and by his wounds made whole,
From hell ascend to heaven.

Verse 5
By faith your sins effac’d ye know:
By faith in Jesus’ footsteps go,
And all his mind retrieve:
By faith arise for glory meet,
Yet still at your Redeemer’s feet
As pardon’d sinners grieve.

Verse 6
Always as pardon’d sinners here
Live out your time in lowly fear,
Nor think repentance past,
Till all the work of faith is done,
Till all the Christian race is run,
And ye have breath’d your last.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Testifying ... repentance towards God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.’—[Acts 20,] v. 21." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 372.
Publishing: Public Domain