1. How has he loved us? How?
Can Earth or Heaven tell?
While prostrate at that cross we bow,
His love’s effects we feel:
The virtue of that sign
Our gasping souls receive,
And ransomed by the death divine
We shall forever live.
2. No angel from his throne
He sent the world to save,
But God his one, beloved Son
To desperate sinners gave:
Who in his bosom lay,
He on his foes bestowed
The Lamb who bore our sins away
And washed us in his blood.
3. Jehovah’s name is Love,
And love his heart inclined
To send his Offspring from above,
A Victim for mankind:
’Twas found in him alone
Salvation’s wondrous cause,
Who freely gave his only Son
To save us by a cross.
4. You did not send your Son
To aggravate our guilt,
But for the sins of Earth t’ atone
His precious blood was spilt:
Not as our Judge he came,
But our Redeemer kind,
That all believing in his name
May life and pardon find.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #93c
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 >
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