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Text: | Sinner, turn, why will ye die? |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Tune: | ABERYSTWYTH |
Composer: | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 |
1 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Maker, asks you why:
God, who did your being give,
Made you with Himself to live;
He the fatal cause demands,
Asks the work of His own hands,
Why, ye thankless creatures, why,
Will ye cross His love, and die?
2 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Saviour, asks you why:
God, who did your souls retrieve,
Died Himself, that ye might live;
Will you let Him die in vain?
Crucify your Lord again?
Why, ye ransomed sinners, why
Will ye slight His grace, and die?
3 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, the Spirit, asks you why:
He who all your lives hath strove,
Wooed you to embrace His love;
Will you not His grace receive?
Will you still refuse to live?
Why, ye long-sought sinners, why
Will ye grieve your God, and die?
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sinner, turn, why will ye die? |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Holy Spirit: Striving; Gospel: Freeness of; The Church and the Kingdom of God: Evangelism(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ABERYSTWYTH |
Composer: | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7 |
Key: | e minor or modal |