The Water and the Blood

Representative Text

1 This, this is He that came
by water and by blood!
Jesus is our atoning Lamb,
our sanctifying God!

2 See from His wounded side
the mingled current flow;
the water and the blood applied
shall wash us white as snow.

3 The water cannot cleanse
before the blood we feel,
to purge the guilt of all our sins,
and our forgiveness seal.

4 But both in Jesus join,
who speaks our sins forgiv'n,
and gives the purity divine
that makes us meet for heav'n.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #225

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: This, this is he that came
Title: The Water and the Blood
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d843

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d849

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d849

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #130

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #138

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d523

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #618

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #56

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #138

Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #d779

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Methodist Hymn-Book #159

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New Hymn and Tune book #241e

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New Hymn and Tune Book #241e

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Our Great Redeemer's Praise #225

The African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymn Book #d423

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The Heart and Voice #239c

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #117

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #96

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