Thee, Jesus, Thee our hearts adore

Verse 1
Thee, Jesus, Thee our hearts adore!
Bound as a criminal profane,
Giv’n up into the judge’s power,
Thou bear’st the punishment of man:
Haled to the Lord’s tremendous bar,
The Governor of earth and sky,
Worthy to be condemn’d we are,
Worthy the second death to die.

Verse 2
But loos’d by thy captivity,
Thy meritorious bonds we bless,
Rejoice, while led away with Thee
To life and endless happiness:
Deliver’d from the Judge Divine
With all thy family above,
With all thy saints on earth we join
The triumph of redeeming Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the Governor.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 416.
Publishing: Public Domain