Witnesses of Jesus’ death

Verse 1
Witnesses of Jesus death
And resurrection we,
Dead to sin, believe and breathe
His Spirit of purity;
Quickned by our living Head
We rise, and seek the things above,
Walk as Jesus walk’d, and lead
The life of holy love.

Verse 2
Witness of thy death am I,
Who daily die with Thee,
I thy rising testify
Who feel thy life in me;
Penitent, I dare proclaim
Thou dost the contrite grace impart,
Preach forgiveness in thy name
Who find it in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye are witnesses of these things.’—[Luke 24,] v. 48.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 315.
Publishing: Public Domain