Religion
John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Is there such dire malignity
And black ingratitude in man?
Such sin Satanical in me?
With grief and shame I own, I can
Vilest of fiends incarnate prove,
And hate a God whose name is Love.
My mind is hatred against God,
My life rebellion and despite
To Thee, who hast on me bestow'd
Thy Son, Thy soul's supreme delight,
Thus to remove my enmity
As causeless, as Thy love for me.
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Wesley, Charles. “John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5952/.
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Wesley, Charles. “John 15:25: They hated Me without a cause.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5952/.
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