Where are the nine? Alas, my God,
We soon forgot thy cleansing blood;
But lo, I now at last return,
My base ingratitude to mourn,
Thy pardning love to glorify,
Thy confessor to live, and die.
Where are the nine? alas, my God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?”—[Luke] xvii. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 253.
Publishing: Public Domain