Till Jesus’ hand the sinner’s take

Verse 1
Till Jesus’ hand the sinner’s take,
The dead in sin can never wake,
Or second life retrieve;
But touch’d by his Redeemer’s hand,
And summon’d by his Lord’s command
The dead shall hear, and live.

Verse 2
Living and dead together join’d,
Sinners and God, we strangely find,
If Christ our righteousness
Enter, and touch the sinful will,
And give our senseless souls to feel
The quickning power of grace.

Verse 3
Grace and the will thro’ Christ alone
Concur, inseparably one;
Thy Spirit’s energy,
Jesus, we now by faith perceive,
And wake to righteousness, and live,
And move, and act for Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.’—[Matt. 9,] v. 25.” 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 226.
Publishing: Public Domain