Still our dear redeeming Lord
Stoops, to bless us, from above,
Publishes th’ inlightning word,
Ministers the saving love:
With the croud that still draw near,
With th’ untutor’d sons of pain,
Ignorant, I come to hear,
Sick of sin my cure to gain.
Still our dear redeeming Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He came down with them ... and a great multitude came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.'—[Luke 6,] v. 17.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 97.
Publishing: Public Domain