Surprizing turn of heavenly grace!
“I, even I am he,”
That drives the sinner from my face?
“No; but who pardon thee!”
Thy bowels of compassion sound,
Thy heart with love runs o’er,
And where my sin doth most abound,
Thy grace aboundeth more.
Surprising tum of heavenly grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, &c.”—[Isa.] xliii. 24, 25. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 418.
Publishing: Public Domain