To David’s Son and sovereign Lord
Hosanna was the people’s cry,
Their King they yesterday ador’d,
To day they sentence him to die:
So many blessings He bestow’d
So many wonders wrought in vain!
Such the benignity of God,
And such th’ ingratitude of man!
To David’s Son and sovereign Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.'—[Luke 23,] v. 21.” 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 298.
Publishing: Public Domain