Thou lately, Lord, in special grace,
Hast visited our captive race,
The remnant left in Babylon,
And made thy pard’ning mercy known,
And help’d us to escape away
By the first dawn of gospel-day.
Thou lately, Lord, in special grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “To leave us a remnant to escape.”—[Ezra] ix. 8. 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 221.
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