Where have ye the sinner laid?
In his Maker’s hands no more,
Till the Quickner of the dead
Doth to second life restore:
In corruption’s pit he lies:
Jesus, come, with pity see,
Speak, and bid the soul arise,
Call him forth to live for Thee.
Where have ye the sinner laid?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said, Where have ye laid him? they say, unto him, Lord, come, and see.’—[John 11,] v. 34." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 248.
Publishing: Public Domain