Still He doth to sinners turn

Verse 1
Still He doth to sinners turn,
Doth with mild complacence view,
Objects of your virtuous scorn
Sinners he prefers to you;
You who with self-righteous pride
Sinners haughtily entreat,
Judge whom God hath justified,
Spurn them at their Saviour’s feet.

Verse 2
At his feet that harlot see,
Weeping, and adoring there!
Feet transfixt on Calvary,
Still she wipes them with her hair,
Kisses them a thousand times,
Weeps, and washing them again,
Loaths herself for pardon’d crimes,
Crimes that caus’d his mortal pain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman?’—[Luke 7,] v. 44.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 166.
Publishing: Public Domain