Hymns · 1783

Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb

Details

Hymnal / album Scriptural Hymns

Publisher Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office

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: “‘Take away all iniquity.’—[Hosea] 14:2. [I.]” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 81.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Ephesians 2:15-16 Colossians 3:11

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Ezekiel 11:19 Ezekiel 36:26 Daniel 9:24 Hosea 14:2 Romans 7:8 Romans 7:18-19 Colossians 3:5 Hebrews 7:25

Lyrics

Verse 1
Jesus, all-redeeming Lamb,
Thine, yet still unsav’d, I am
Monster of iniquity
Bring a world of sin to Thee:
If Thou canst so greatly save, (Heb. 7:25)
If Thou wilt thy purchase have,
If almighty Love Thou art,
Take away this bestial heart. (Ezek. 11:19, Ezek. 36:26, Hosea 14:2)

Verse 2
Vanity, concupiscence (Rom. 7:8, Col. 3:5)
I can never banish hence,
Never can myself expel,
Loath the sins I love so well: (Rom. 7:18-19)
Carnal, and corrupt in mind,
If a good desire I find,
Lord, it flows from Thee alone;
Answer, and accept thine own.

Verse 3
Now inclin’d by Thee I pray
Take the bestial heart away, (Ezek. 11:19, Ezek. 36:26)
Far out of my soul remove
All that bars thy purer love;
More than conquer it in me,
Quite destroy the enmity (Eph. 2:15-16)
Root it out this love of sin,
Bring thy heavenly nature in.

Verse 4
If thy time be fully come,
Now this Antichrist consume,
Finish the transgression now (Dan. 9:24)
Saviour to the utmost Thou; (Heb. 7:25)
Everlasting righteousness (Dan. 9:24)
Thou my hallow’d soul possess,
Peace, and power, and purity
Christ, be all in all to me. (Col. 3:11)