Whence is it that my Lord

Verse 1
Whence is it that my Lord
Himself should visit me,
Should stoop to such a wretch abhor’d,
And claim my misery?
He leaves his throne above
For his own mercy sake,
He comes constrain’d by pitying love,
And doth my nature take.

Verse 2
The mystery of thy grace
What angel can conceive?
Thou wou’dst to all our ransom’d race
Faith and salvation give:
Thou dost the grace reveal,
Thou dost the faith impart,
And thus Thou com’st again to dwell
Forever in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?'—[Luke 1,] v. 43.” 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 107.
Publishing: Public Domain