The saving promise is for all,
And all may live of Christ possest,
Yet thousands in the desert fall,
And never enter into rest:
By God ordain’d to life alone,
Thro’ wilful incredulity
Destroy’d, they in that day shall own
It was no absolute decree!
The saving promise is for all
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ye shall know my breach of promise.”—[Num.] xiv. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 79.
Publishing: Public Domain