While the glad tidings we proclaim

Verse 1
While the glad tidings we proclaim,
Preach, that all thro’ Jesus name
May full redemption have,
If He the given word apply,
We urge, exhort, and testify
Yourselves, ye sinners, save.

Verse 2
Come out from those who know not God,
Those that trample on his blood
Who died that they might live:
The froward world this moment quit,
And wait at Jesus wounded feet
Your pardon to receive.

Verse 3
Touch’d by the blood your souls are clean,
From the guilt and power of sin,
Compleatly sav’d thro’ grace:
Ye then from faith to faith go on,
O’retake your Saviour on his throne,
And see him face to face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.’—[Acts 2,] v. 40.” It appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 152.
Publishing: Public Domain