Religion
2 Chronicles 32:31, 217: The deeper in distress
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
The deeper in distress,
The farther I rebel,
As bent to claim for my own place
The hottest place in hell.
Tis not in pain to move
This most obdurate heart;
Only the power of bleeding love
Can stone to flesh convert,
Bid my rebellions end,
And wash the Eihiop white.
And change a foul incarnate fiend
Into a child of light.
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Wesley, Charles. “2 Chronicles 32:31, 217: The deeper in distress.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3031/.
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Wesley, Charles. “2 Chronicles 32:31, 217: The deeper in distress.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3031/.
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