Religion

Job 13:26: Thou call'st my former sins to mind

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Thou call'st my former sins to mind:
Sins of my heedless youth I find
In all their strength return,
Again my trembling heart they seize;
My life, my nature's wickedness.
With heighten'd grief I mourn.

O could I more than feebly hope,
Thou castest down to lift me up,
Thou dost in mercy send
These painful tokens of Thy love.
To purge, to humble, and to prove,
And bless me in my end!

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Job 13:26: Thou call'st my former sins to mind.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3107/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Job 13:26: Thou call'st my former sins to mind.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3107/.

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