That change entire of life and heart
Which only God effects in man,
Saviour, and Prince to us impart,
And in our inmost souls explain;
The death of sin, the life of grace
We then shall feel divinely given,
And pass, rejoicing all our days,
To that eternal life in heaven.
That change entire of life and heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.’—[Acts 11,] v. 18.” 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 257.
Publishing: Public Domain