Thou hast into the furnace cast,
Yet by my griefs and sufferings past
I am not, Lord, refin’d:
I am not, but I shall be pure,
Shall make my own election sure,
And leave my dross behind.
Thou hast into the furnace cast
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”—[Isa.] xlviii. 10. 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 425.
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