Thou wilt be merciful, thou wilt
No longer bear in mind
My old, or new-contracted guilt,
But cast it all behind:
My sins if I no more repeat,
When thou hast cross’d the score,
Forgiving them, thou wilt forget
And never mention more.
Thou wilt be merciful, Thou wilt
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And will not remember thy sins.”—[Isa.] xliii. 25. 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 419.
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