Details
Hymnal / album
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2
Publisher
Farley
Copyright
Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)
Notes
Originally titled “Make you a new heart.”—[Ezek.] xviii. 31. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 53.
Scripture connections
References
Verses this song directly draws fromAllusions
Verses this song echoes or alludes toLyrics
How can I my own heart renew? (Ezek. 18:31, Ezek. 36:26, Ps. 51:10)
The word confers the power to do:
The word I now embrace,
I yield to be renew’d by thee, (Rom. 12:2)
Accepting first the pardon free,
And then the perfect grace.