When first I feel thy blood applied,
And know that mine Thou art,
Lord, I am fully justified,
And pure my sprinkled heart;
I am redeem’d for thy dear sake
From all iniquity,
And God doth no distinction make
Betwixt a saint and me.
When first I feel thy blood applied
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He put no difference between us and them.’—[Acts 15,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 367.
Publishing: Public Domain