Who gave his life mankind to save,
And the great God to glorify,
In forty hours he left the grave,
In forty days regain’d the sky:
When Jesus from the dead He rais’d,
The Father glorified the Son,
Jehovah by Jehovah plac’d,
Th’ eternal Partner of his throne.
Who gave his life mankind to save
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him with himself, and will straightway glorify him.’—[John 13,] v. 32." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 261.
Publishing: Public Domain