When our redeeming Lord

Verse 1
When our redeeming Lord
Pronounc’d the pard’ning word,
Turn’d our soul’s captivity,
O what sweet surprize we found!
Wonder ask’d, “And can it be!”
Scarce believ’d the welcome sound.

Verse 2
And is it not a dream?
And are we sav’d thro’ him?
Yes, our bounding heart replied,
Yes, broke out our joyful tongue,
Freely we are justify’d;
This the new, the gospel song!

Verse 3
The heathen too could see
Our glorious liberty:
All our foes were forc’d to own,
God for them hath wonders wrought:
Wonders he for us hath done,
From the house of bondage brought.

Verse 4
To us our gracious God
His pard’ning love hath shew’d,
Now our joyful souls are free
From the guilt and power of sin,
Greater things we soon shall see,
We shall soon be pure within.

Verse 5
Turn us again, O Lord,
Pronounce the second word,
Loose our hearts, and let us go
Down the Spirit’s fullest flood,
Freely to the fountain flow,
All be swallow’d up in God.

Verse 6
Who for thy coming wait,
And wail their lost estate,
Poor, and sad, and empty still,
Who for full redemption weep,
They shall thy appearing feel,
Sow in tears, in joy to reap.

Verse 7
Who seed immortal bears,
And wets his path with tears,
Doubtless he shall soon return,
Bring his sheaves with vast increase,
Fully of the Spirit born,
Perfected in holiness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Psalm CXXVI." Introduced in John and Charles Wesley. Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 2nd edition, enlarged (London: Strahan, 1743). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 241.
Publishing: Public Domain