{"slug": "and-can-it-be-that-i-should-gain", "title": "And Can It Be That I Should Gain?", "first_line": "And can it be that I should gain", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1738", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Grace", "Assurance", "Blood", "Salvation", "God, Love of"], "scripture": ["Romans 5:8-10", "Ephesians 3:8-12", "Acts 12:7", "1 Kings 19:11-12"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley (1707-1788). Hymnary's text authority and_can_it_be_that_i_should_gain gives 'Author: Charles Wesley (1738)', 'Copyright: Public Domain', across 328 hymnal instances. FIRST PUBLICATION IS CONTESTED and this record does not settle it: the Cyber Hymnal cites Hymns and Sacred Poems (London: Strahan, 1739), pp. 117-119, while Hymnary's own text page says the hymn 'was first published in John Wesley's Psalms and Hymns (1738)' and one of its instance rows carries textSources 'Psalms and Hymns, 1738'. Both candidate printings are pre-1931, so the licensing gate is unaffected. Printed with the attribution 'CHARLES WESLEY' in The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), #310, pp. 218-219 \u2014 the scan these stanzas were checked against (archive.org methodi00meth, leaves 230-231). Author died 1788; all components far pre-1931 and public domain in the US.\nSTANZA SET AND READINGS. Six stanzas, Wesley's usual set and order. Stanzas 1-5 are the Open Hymnal X:266 underlay verbatim except for two punctuation corrections made against the 1905 print and Wesley's own text (stanza 3 'grace?' -> 'grace!'; stanza 4 'ray?' -> 'ray,') and one hyphenation fix ('diff -- used' -> 'dif -- fused'); stanza 6 ('No condemnation now I dread') is typed from the same ABC's W: lines, which carry it as prose only. The 1905 print itself omits 'Still the small inward voice I hear' and prints 'No condemnation' as its fifth stanza, and it reads 'That thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me?' where this record keeps Wesley's 'That Thou, my God' (the Open Hymnal reading, and the one most hymnals print).", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "and_can_it_be_that_i_should_gain", "total_instances": 328}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "And can it be that I should gain An in -- terest in the Sav -- ior's blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pur -- sued? A -- maz -- ing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?", "prose": ["And can it be that I should gain", "An interest in the Savior's blood?", "Died He for me, who caused His pain?", "For me, who Him to death pursued?", "Amazing love! How can it be,", "That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "'Tis mys -- tery all: th'Im -- mor -- tal dies: Who can ex -- plore His strange de -- sign? In vain the first -- born ser -- aph tries To sound the depths of love di -- vine. 'Tis mer -- cy all! Let earth a -- dore, Let an -- gel minds in -- quire no more.", "prose": ["'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies:", "Who can explore His strange design?", "In vain the firstborn seraph tries", "To sound the depths of love divine.", "'Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,", "Let angel minds inquire no more."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "He left His Fa -- ther's throne a -- bove So free, so in -- fi -- nite His grace! Emp -- tied Him -- self of all but love, And bled for Ad -- am's help -- less race: 'Tis mer -- cy all, im -- mense and free, For O my God, it found out me!", "prose": ["He left His Father's throne above", "So free, so infinite His grace!", "Emptied Himself of all but love,", "And bled for Adam's helpless race:", "'Tis mercy all, immense and free,", "For O my God, it found out me!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Long my im -- pris -- oned spir -- it lay, Fast bound in sin and na -- ture's night; Thine eye dif -- fused a quick -- 'ning ray, I woke, the dun -- geon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and fol -- lowed Thee.", "prose": ["Long my imprisoned spirit lay,", "Fast bound in sin and nature's night;", "Thine eye diffused a quick'ning ray,", "I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;", "My chains fell off, my heart was free,", "I rose, went forth, and followed Thee."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Still the small in -- ward voice I hear, That whis -- pers all my sins for -- giv'n; Still the a -- ton -- ing blood is near, That quenched the wrath of hos -- tile Heav'n. I feel the life His wounds im -- part; I feel the Sav -- ior in my heart.", "prose": ["Still the small inward voice I hear,", "That whispers all my sins forgiv'n;", "Still the atoning blood is near,", "That quenched the wrath of hostile Heav'n.", "I feel the life His wounds impart;", "I feel the Savior in my heart."]}, "6": {"syllabified": "No con -- dem -- na -- tion now I dread; Je -- sus, and all in Him, is mine; A -- live in Him, my liv -- ing Head, And clothed in right -- eous -- ness di -- vine, Bold I ap -- proach th'e -- ter -- nal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own.", "prose": ["No condemnation now I dread;", "Jesus, and all in Him, is mine;", "Alive in Him, my living Head,", "And clothed in righteousness divine,", "Bold I approach th'eternal throne,", "And claim the crown, through Christ my own."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}