Surely their redeeming God
Wrought his sudden work of grace,
Precious faith on all bestow’d,
Cloath’d them in his righteousness:
All who wash’d their sins away
In that pure, baptismal stream,
Teach us, that a single day
Is a thousand years to Him.
Surely their redeeming God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was baptized, he and all his, straightway.’—[Acts 16,] v. 33.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 376.
Publishing: Public Domain