No. 100 Pleading Savior, Osh 234
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Now see the Savior stands pleading
At the sinner’s bolted heart.
Now in heav’n he’s interceding,
Undertaking sinners’ part.
Sinners, can you hate this Savior?
Will you thrust him from your arms?
Once he died for your behavior,
Now he calls you to his arms.
Sinners, hear your God and Savior,
Hear his gracious voice today;
Turn from all your vain behavior,
Oh repent, return, and pray.
Sinners, can you hate this Savior?
Will you thrust him from your arms?
Once he died for your behavior,
Now he calls you to his arms.
The first line of the text above should probably read
Now the Savior stands a-pleading.
The Methodist Hymn Book of England, London, 1933, has the above tune under the title ‘Saltash’, and its source is given as the Plymouth Collection, 1855.