Religion

Luke 13:3: O What a life is mine

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

O What a life is mine!
Backward I cast mine eye.
And trembling own the truth Divine,
"I must repent, or die!"
But Him, who tells me so.
Highly extoU'd I see,
The godly sorrow to bestow.
The godly love on me.

Saviour, and Prince, appear
To break this stubborn heart,
And then to bid my guilty fear
And unbelief depart;
While at Thy feet I grieve,
From all my sins release,
The sense of Thy salvation give,
The kingdom of Thy peace.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Luke 13:3: O What a life is mine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5242/.

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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 13:3: O What a life is mine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5242/.

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