The King of saints, with glory crowned

Verse 1
The King of saints, with glory crown’d,
Among a croud of sinners found,
Our Representative he makes
Himself, and our transgressions takes,
Baptiz’d, to purge us from all sin,
To wash our lives, and conscience clean.

Verse 2
He clave the sea by his command,
And Israel led to Canaan’s land:
Now by his power He parts the air,
And heaven is open’d thro’ his prayer,
That all his ransom’d ones may rise,
And find a passage to the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heavens were opened.’—[Luke 3,] v. 21.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 87-88.
Publishing: Public Domain