Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: What could your Redeemer do
Topic: Gospel/Invitation Hymns
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 7s double
Tune: Merdin
Hymn Number: 651
Page Number: 241, 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 life your God hath sworn
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?
Sinners, turn, while God is near!
He has left you naught to fear;
Now, e'en now, your Saviour 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 that God is love,
Who thus calls you from above?
Will you not His word receive?
Will you not His oath believe?
See, the suff'ring Lord appears;
Jesus weeps--believe His tears!
Mingled with His blood, they cry,
"Why will you resolve to die?"