Throughout my fallen soul I feel
Repentance is impossible;
’Till thou the rock hast rent,
And chang’d to flesh the heart of stone,
Like Satan in his chains, I groan,
But never can repent.
Throughout my fallen soul I feel, repentance is impossible
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Turn thou me, and I shall be turned.”—[Jer.] xxxi. 18. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 39.
Publishing: Public Domain