The Lord, whose mercies never end

Verse 1
The Lord, whose mercies never end,
More messengers vouchsaf’d to send,
By teachers his demand made known,
By seers and saints requir’d his own:
They call’d on man his rent to pay,
They urg’d, “Repent, believe, obey,
“Restore whate’er his grace bestow’d,
“And live to glorify your God.[”]

Verse 2
But man averse in heart and mind
Cast all his Maker’s words behind,
In every age th’ ungrateful race
Hath spurn’d the ministers of grace,
Hated whoe’er the message brought,
Their ruin and destruction sought,
Truth and its witnesses abhor’d,
And ston’d, and kill’d them with the sword.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Again he sent another, and him they killed, and many others, beating some and killing some.’—[Mark 12,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 50.
Publishing: Public Domain