Part I: Containing Introductory Hymns

Section I: Exhorting, and beseeching to return to God

Hymn 8

What Could Your Redeemer Do

Charles Wesley

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D

1WHAT could your Redeemer do
More than he hath done for you?
To procure your peace with God,
Could He more than shed his blood?
After all his waste of love,
All his drawings from above,
Why will your Lord deny?
Why will you resolve to die?

2Turn, he cries, ye sinners 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 you to life invite?
Would He ask, obtest, and cry,
Why will you resolve to die?

3Sinners turn, while God is near:
Dare not think him insincere:
Now, even now, your Saviour stands,
All day long He spreads his hands;
Cries, ye will not happy be;
No, ye will not come to Me!
Me, who life to none deny:
Why will you resolve to die?

4Can ye doubt if God is love?
If to all his bowels move?
Will ye not his word recieve?
Will ye not his oath believe?
See, the suffering God appears!
Jesus weeps! believe his tears!
Mingled with his blood, they cry,
Why will you resolve to die?