Religion
Mark 5:39: Sinners who bewail your dead
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Religion
Sinners who bewail your dead.
See from whence your sorrows flow:
If from nature they proceed.
Stop the unavailing woe:
Happy who in Jesus sleep:
Mourn aright ye noisy crowd,
Ear yourselves, not others, weep.
Foes to Christ, and dead to God.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:39: Sinners who bewail your dead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4736/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:39: Sinners who bewail your dead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4736/.
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