Sinners
turn: why will you die?
God
your maker
asks you why.
God
who did your being give
Gave Himself
that you might live;
He the fatal cause demands
Asks the work of His own hands.
Why
you thankless creatures
why
Will you cross His love
and die?
Sinners
turn: why will you die?
God
your Savior
asks you why.
God
who did your souls retrieve
Died Himself
that you might live.
Will you let Him die in vain?
Crucify your Lord again?
Why
you ransomed sinners
why
Will you slight His grace and die?
Sinners
turn: why will you die?
God
the Spirit
asks you why;
He
who all your lives hath strove
Wooed you to embrace His love.
Will you not His grace receive?
Will you still refuse to live?
Why
you long sought sinners
why
Will you grieve your God
and die?
Let the beasts their breath resign
Strangers to the life divine;
Who their God can never know
Let their spirit downward go.
You for higher ends were born
You may all to God return
Dwell with Him above the sky;
Why will you forever die?
You
on whom He favors showers
You
possessed of nobler powers
You
of reason’s powers possessed
You
with will and memory blessed
You
with finer sense endued
Creatures capable of God;
Noblest of His creatures
why
Why will you forever die?
You
whom He ordained to be
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You
whom He in life doth hold
You for whom Himself was sold
You
on whom He still doth wait
Whom He would again create;
Made by Him
and purchased
why
Why will you forever die?
You
who own His record true
You
His chosen people
you
You
who call the Savior Lord
You
who read His written Word
You
who see the Gospel light
Claim a crown in Jesus’ right;
Why will you
ye Christians
why
Will the house of Israel die?
Turn
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;
He hath brought to all the race
Full salvation by His grace;
He hath not one soul passed by;
Why will you resolve to die?
Can ye doubt
if God is love
If to all His mercies move?
Will ye not His Word receive?
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?
Dead
already dead within
Spiritually dead in sin
Dead to God while here you breathe
Pant ye after second death?
Will you still in sin remain
Greedy of eternal pain?
O you dying sinners
why
Why will you forever die?
What 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 you your Lord deny?
Why will you resolve to die?
Turn
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?
Sinners
turn
while God is near:
Dare not think Him insincere:
Now
even now
your Savior stands
All day long He spreads His hands
Cries
you will not happy be!
No
you will not come to Me!
Me
who life to none deny:
Why will you resolve to die?