The man that had no evil done

Verse 1
The man that had no evil done,
Is in their consciences made known
Who yet will not receive
The truth from Jesus messenger,
Embrace the free salvation here
Or by his gospel live.

Verse 2
Still, when they hear his pardning word,
The great ones of the earth their Lord
With unconcern pass by;
Content the preacher to approve,
They will retain the sins they love
Till unrenew’d they die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They talked between themselves, saying, This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.’—[Acts 26,] v. 31." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 429.
Publishing: Public Domain