Sinners, ye all remain

Verse 1
Sinners, ye all remain
Fetter’d, and close confined;
Sin is the iron chain
That doth your spirit bind,
Your conscience is the dungeon foul,
Satan your goaler [gaoler/jailer] stands,
And watches, least one guilty soul
Escape out of his hands.

Verse 2
But Jesus Christ is He
That hath a ransom found,
And preaches liberty
To souls in prison bound:
His blood shall make your conscience clean,
Cast down your hellish foe,
Break all the manacles of sin,
And let the captives go.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou art in the bond of iniquity.’—[Acts 8,] v. 23.” 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 226.
Publishing: Public Domain