Yet wilt thou not the guilty clear,
If we to sin return:
Thy wrath vindictively severe
From age to age shall burn;
Unless our sinful misery
We self-condemn’d bemoan,
And find an Advocate in thee
Before thy Father’s throne.
Yet wilt Thou not the guilty clear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “That will by no means clear the guilty, &c.”—[Exod.] xxxiv. 7. 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 56.
Publishing: Public Domain