Who Jesus revere

Verse 1
Who Jesus revere,
To his servants give ear,
While we publish and show
The miraculous work of his mercy below;
His astonishing grace
To the reprobate race,
Who are sav’d, and set free
By a sight of the Lamb, as He hangs on the tree!

Verse 2
They had nothing to plead,
Not a word, or a deed,
Not a truly good thought
When his mercy appear’d with a pardon unsought:
They were strangers to God,
An heathenish croud,
They had nothing to pay,
When He wash’d all their sins in a moment away.

Verse 3
Freely pardon’d they were,
And to sinners declare,
Who all evil have done
May with them be absolv’d by his mercy alone,
By believing in Him
Ever near to redeem
A poor desperate race,
And to save the whole world by his wonderful grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then all the multitude gave audience, to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God wrought among the Gentiles by them.’—[Acts 15,] v. 12.” This hymn 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 303.
Publishing: Public Domain