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<h2>SINNERS, TURN: WHY WILL YOU DIE?</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!” Ezekiel 18:31-32</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_e_wesley_c.jpg" alt="Charles Wesley (1707-1788)" width="149.333333333333" height="198"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_e_wesley_c.html" target="_blank">Charles Wesley</a>, <em>Hymns on God’s Everlasting Love</em>, 1741.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Messiah,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_e_herold_ljf.html" target="_blank">Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold</a>, 1839; arranged by George Kingsley, 1839 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_messiah.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Sinners, turn: why will you die?<br>
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God, your Maker, asks you why.<br>
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God, Who did your being give,<br>
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Gave Himself, that you might live;<br>
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He the fatal cause demands,<br>
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Asks the work of His own hands.<br>
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Why, you thankless creatures, why,<br>
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Will you cross His love, and die?</p>
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<p>Sinners, turn: why will you die?<br>
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God, your Savior, asks you why.<br>
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God, Who did your souls retrieve,<br>
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Died Himself, that you might live.<br>
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Will you let Him die in vain?<br>
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Crucify your Lord again?<br>
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Why, you ransomed sinners, why,<br>
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Will you slight His grace and die?</p>
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<p>Sinners, turn: why will you die?<br>
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God, the Spirit, asks you why;<br>
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He, Who all your lives hath strove,<br>
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Wooed you to embrace His love.<br>
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Will you not His grace receive?<br>
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Will you still refuse to live?<br>
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Why, you long sought sinners, why,<br>
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Will you grieve your God, and die?</p>
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<p>Let the beasts their breath resign,<br>
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Strangers to the life divine;<br>
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Who their God can never know,<br>
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Let their spirit downward go.<br>
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You for higher ends were born,<br>
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You may all to God return,<br>
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Dwell with Him above the sky;<br>
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Why will you forever die?</p>
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<p>You, on whom He favors showers,<br>
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You, possessed of nobler powers,<br>
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You, of reason’s powers possessed,<br>
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You, with will and memory blessed,<br>
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You, with finer sense endued,<br>
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Creatures capable of God;<br>
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Noblest of His creatures, why,<br>
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Why will you forever die?</p>
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<p>You, whom He ordained to be<br>
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Transcripts of the Trinity,<br>
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You, whom He in life doth hold,<br>
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You for whom Himself was sold,<br>
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You, on whom He still doth wait,<br>
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Whom He would again create;<br>
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Made by Him, and purchased, why,<br>
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Why will you forever die?</p>
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<p>You, who own His record true,<br>
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You, His chosen people, you,<br>
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You, who call the Savior Lord,<br>
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You, who read His written Word,<br>
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You, who see the Gospel light,<br>
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Claim a crown in Jesus’ right;<br>
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Why will you, ye Christians, why,<br>
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Will the house of Israel die?</p>
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<p>Turn, He cries, ye sinners turn;<br>
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By His life your God hath sworn;<br>
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He would have you turn and live,<br>
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He would all the world receive;<br>
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He hath brought to all the race<br>
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Full salvation by His grace;<br>
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He hath not one soul passed by;<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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<p>Can ye doubt, if God is love,<br>
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If to all His mercies move?<br>
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Will ye not His Word receive?<br>
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Will ye not His oath believe?<br>
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See, the suffering God appears!<br>
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Jesus weeps! Believe His tears!<br>
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Mingled with His blood they cry,<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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<p>Dead, already dead within,<br>
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Spiritually dead in sin,<br>
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Dead to God while here you breathe,<br>
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Pant ye after second death?<br>
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Will you still in sin remain,<br>
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Greedy of eternal pain?<br>
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O you dying sinners, why,<br>
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Why will you forever die?</p>
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<p>What could your Redeemer do<br>
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More than He hath done for you?<br>
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To procure your peace with God,<br>
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Could He more than shed His blood?<br>
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After all His waste of love,<br>
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All His drawings from above,<br>
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Why will you your Lord deny?<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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<p>Turn, He cries, ye sinners, turn;<br>
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By His life your God hath sworn,<br>
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He would have you turn and live,<br>
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He would all the world receive.<br>
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If your death were His delight,<br>
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Would he you to life invite?<br>
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Would he ask, obtest, and cry,<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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<p>Sinners, turn, while God is near:<br>
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Dare not think Him insincere:<br>
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Now, even now, your Savior stands,<br>
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All day long He spreads His hands,<br>
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Cries, you will not happy be!<br>
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No, you will not come to Me!<br>
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Me, Who life to none deny:<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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<p>Can you doubt if God is love?<br>
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If to all His vowels move?<br>
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Will you not His Word receive?<br>
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Will you not His oath believe?<br>
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See! the suffering God appears!<br>
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Jesus weeps! Believe His tears!<br>
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Mingled with His blood, they cry,<br>
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Why will you resolve to die?</p>
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