Thou need’st the kind command repeat,
So apt the sinner to forget
His former trespasses:
But lest I cast them still behind,
Saviour, bring all my sins to mind,
And on my heart impress.
Thou need’st the kind command repeat
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness.”—[Deut.] ix. 7. 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 100.
Publishing: Public Domain