Thee, Lord, Thy love constrains

Verse 1
Thee, Lord, thy love constrains
To save us thro’ thy pains,
Straitned by desire Thou art
To appease the wrath of God,
Life by thy own death t’ impart,
Man to wash in thy own blood.

Verse 2
Thy precious sacrifice
The general pardon buys:
Hence, my God, thou canst not rest,
Till Thou lay the ransom down:
Till with grace and glory blest
All thy saints obtain their crown.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitned till it be accomplished!’—[Luke 12,] v. 50.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 216.
Publishing: Public Domain