Slowly doth thine anger rise
To give thy creature pain,
Forc’d to trouble and chastise
A rebel child of man;
But thy mercy flies apace
A mourner’s pardon to restore,
Wipes the sorrow from my face,
And bids me sin no more.
Slowly doth Thine anger rise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.”—[Lam.] iii. 33. 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 51.
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