forgiveness of our sins and the restoration of our relationship with God. We experience Christ’s work on our behalf in this regard as pardon—a “plentiful pardon in Jesus’s name.” Jesus is the subject of these two stanzas, but stanza four shifts to “us.” Wesley replaces “he” with “we” because of the important claim that Christ makes upon us all in the act of redemption. Those who have been restored to God in Christ are witnesses to all that God has done for us. We are called to own and proclaim the
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