Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: What could your Redeemer do
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 22
Page Number: 025, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhat could your Redeemer do
More than he has done for you?
To procure your peace with god
Could he more than shed his blood?
After all this flow of love,
All his drawings from above,
Why will you your Lord deny?
Why will you resolve to die?
Turn, he cries, O sinner turn -
By his love your God makes known
He would have you turn and live,
He would all the world receive.
If your death were his delight
Would he thus to life invite?
Would he ask, beseech, and cry,
Why will you resolve to die?
Sinner turn while God is near,
Dare not think him insincere;
Now e'en now, your Savior stands
All day long he spreads his hands:
Cries, "You will not happy be,
No, you will not come to me;
Me, who life to none deny -
Why will you resolve to die?"
Can you doubt if God is love,
That to all his bowels move?
Will you not his word receive?
Will you not his oath believe?
See the suffering Lord appears,
Jesus weeps - believe his tears;
Mingled with his blood they cry,
"Why will you resolve to die?"