Did I not lingring stand,
Till mercy seiz’d my hand,
Nor suffer’d me to look
Toward those I had forsook;
And rescued as a brand I am,
Pluck’d out of the infernal flame!
Did I not lingering stand
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “While he lingred, the men laid hold upon his hand, and they brought him forth.”—[Gen.] xix. 16. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 20.
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