The blood of innocents I bear,
Of all to sin intic’d by me,
Of souls an hoary murtherer!
But lo, I to the city flee,
I plunge me in the fountain pure
Which purges my blood-guiltiness,
And bids me live with God secure,
And bids me die in perfect peace.
The blood of innocents I bear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In thy skirts is found the blood of innocents.”—[Jer.] ii. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 6.
Publishing: Public Domain