Religion
Hosea 14: If Christ, with all His power and love
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
If Christ, with all His power and love,
Can XiOMtx perfectly remove
My desperate wickedness?
But, Lord, I trust, Thy gracious skill
Shall throughly my backslidings heal,
My sinfulness of soul,
Destroy the bent to sin in me,
Cure my original malady.
And make, and keep me whole.
O THAT His wrath were turn'd aside,
O could I know Him pacified.
Again with pardon bless'd.
How gladly should I then resign
My soul into the hands Divine,
And trust Him for the rest.
Jesus, my sprinkled heart assure,
Thou didst my life by death procure,
Didst buy the sinner's peace.
That I to sin entirely dead
From every thought of evil freed.
Might live to righteousness.
Now in the sense of cancell'd sin,
Thy sanctifying work begin,
Pour in the balm of grace.
My wounds bind up, my peace restore.
And saved by Thee, I sin no more,
But walk in all Thy ways.
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MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Hosea 14: If Christ, with all His power and love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3765/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Hosea 14: If Christ, with all His power and love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3765/.
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