1. While full of the malicious fiend,
Counsel they take against their Friend,
His thoughts to them are thoughts of peace,
Their hatred he with pity sees,
And bows his head, that they may find
His death the life of human kind.
2. Fear for a moment may with-hold,
And curb the man to evil sold,
But if a stronger passion rise,
He every consequence defies,
And nature all restraint disdains,
And sin and Satan take the reins.
3. Tremendous doom, when God the just
Leaves to themselves the slaves of sin!
When nothing now obstructs their lust,
With joy they let the tempter in,
And lo, the long-sought means they find
To perpetrate their ill design.
4. The blackest crimes I should have done,
Had you not hedged about my way,
Withheld my soul by ways unknown,
Stood by me in the evil day,
Opposed the violence of my will,
And mortified my lust to kill.
5. Forever be your grace adored,
Which would not give me up to die,
Like the old murd'rer of my Lord;
Thy saving name I magnify,
And humbled into nothing own
The difference made by grace alone.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #124a
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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