When Thou the bond of sin hast broke

Verse 1
When Thou the bond of sin hast broke,
Thine easy, light, and pleasant yoke
I chearfully receive;
By the new, sacred load I bear
Disburthen’d now from every care
Beneath thy cross I live.

Verse 2
Redeem’d from passion’s tyranny,
If Thou implant thy mind in me,
If Thou thy Spirit impart,
I learn the wisdom from above,
The meek simplicity of love,
Thy lowliness of heart.

Verse 3
Then, then the true repose I find
Of quiet, humble souls, reclin’d
On their Redeemer’s breast,
Like them from my own actings cease,
And gain in Thee the perfect peace,
The everlasting rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.’—Matt. 11, v. 29.” Wesley originally published this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.”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 255.
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