Worthy of death, afraid to die,
To Israel’s gracious King I cry;
The grace thou hast to others shew’d,
O might it be on me bestow’d!
My cause of hope is all in thee;
O God, be merciful to me,
I pray thee let the sinner live,
And for mere mercy’s sake forgive.
Worthy of death, afraid to die
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We have heard, that the kings of Israel are merciful kings.”—[I. Kings] xx. 31. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 183.
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