Yes; for Thou hast received

Verse 1
Yes; for Thou hast receiv’d
The sinner’s chief in me:
Thro’ mercy I believ’d,
And favor found with Thee,
A wandring sheep to Satan sold,
Thou hast brought back4 into thy fold.

Verse 2
This heav’n-descended Man
God over all I own,
Who doth my soul sustain
With living bread unknown;
Admitted on thy grace to feast
O take me to thy endless rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “This man receiveth sinners.”—[Luke] xv. 2. Wesley originally published this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.”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 232.
Publishing: Public Domain