O Jesus my hope

O Jesus my hope. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the book that Charles published with his brother’s approval to smooth the way to his marriage with Sarah Gwynne. It was in Volume I, the sixth in a series of nine ‘Penitential Hymns’ (‘Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay’* was the last of the series). It had six stanzas, as follows: O Jesus my Hope,  For me offer’d up,Who with Clamour pursued Thee to Calvary’s Top,  The Blood I have shed  For me let it plead,And declare,Thou has died in thy Murderer’s stead..  Thy Blood, which alone For Sin could atone, For the infinite Evil I madly have done, That only can seal My Pardon, and...

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