Sinners, what have ye done,
In nature’s ignorance?
Your crime, ye unbelievers own,
Your unperceiv’d offence:
Ye have expos’d to shame
Th’ eternal Son of God,
Murther’d afresh the slaughter’d Lamb,
And trampled on his blood.
Your learned rulers too,
Who sit in Moses’ chair,
Have crucified their Lord anew;
And still their Saviour tear:
Alas, they know not yet,
In sin and error bred,
Who spitefully the members treat,
They persecute the Head.
Sinners what have ye done
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.’—[Acts 3,] v. 17.” 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 162.
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