Ye who your sin have spar’d
And cherish’d in your breast,
A thief and murtherer prefer’d
To God forever blest;
The Prince of life and peace
Ye wickedly have slain,
Renew’d his dying agonies,
And tortur’d him again:
But God hath him restor’d,
No more to mourn or die:
He lives, He lives, our glorious Lord,
He reigns above the sky!
His witnesses and friends
Throughout the world proclaim
The kingdom come that never ends,
The powers of Jesus Name.
Ye who your sin have spar’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye desired a murtherer to be granted unto you: And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.”—[Acts 3,] v. 14, 15.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 291–92.
Publishing: Public Domain