Religion
Acts 4:13: Where is now the feeble reed
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Where is now the feeble reed
Shaken by a damsel's breath?
Man he can no longer dread,
Pain, imprisonment, and death;
Fill'd with virtue from his Lord,
With the Spirit of faith and power,
Peter stands, by grace restored,;
Stands a rock and shakes no more!
Reeds may still, if Thou ordain,
Into rocks and pillars rise:
Me, the weakest child of man,
Jesus, strengthen from the skies;
Fill me with that Spirit of grace
Witness for a dying God,
Then I shall the truth confess,
Dare to seal it with my blood.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 4:13: Where is now the feeble reed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6215/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 4:13: Where is now the feeble reed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6215/.
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