Whom now we to thy grace commend
On him thy pardning mercy show,
Heal by a word our dying friend,
That learned infidels may know
Thy power on earth, thy right Divine
To pardon sins,—as great as mine!
Whom now we to thy grace commend
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, he said ... Arise &c .'—[Luke 5,] v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 95.
Publishing: Public Domain