The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#321

321. Would Jesus have the sinner die?

1 Would Jesus have the sinner die?
Why hangs he then on yonder tree?
What means that strange expiring cry?
Sinners, he prays for you and me:
"Forgive them, Father, O forgive!
They know not that by me they live."

2 Jesus, descended from above,
Our loss of Eden to retrieve;
Great God of universal love,
If all the world through thee may live,
In us a quickening spirit be,
And witness thou hast died for me.

3 O, let thy love my heart constrain,
Thy love, for every sinner free,
That every fallen son of man
May taste the grace that rescued me,
That all mankind his love may prove
That sovereign, everlasting love.

Text Information

• First Line: Would Jesus have the sinner die?
• Author: Charles Wesley
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Christ: Sufferings and Death
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: STELLA
• Composer: Unknown
• Meter: L. M. 6L
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #234, 683, or 706.