Thy mercy grants the sinner’s

Verse 1
Thy mercy grants the sinner’s prayer;
Thy greater love doth oft defer
The promis’d good to give,
That help’d in the most desperate case
We thy transcendant power may praise,
And perfectly believe.

Verse 2
Thy presence bids our troubles cease;
Thy absence makes our faith increase,
While patient and resign’d
We humbly for thy coming stay,
Till fitted thro’ our Lord’s delay
Thine utmost love we find.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe.’—[John 11,] v. 15." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 471.
Publishing: Public Domain