The promise of my chastning God (Heb. 12:5-11, Job 5:17-18)
I humbled in the dust receive, (Job 42:6)
Respire beneath my sinful load,
In hope thou wilt again forgive,
Return my evil to remove,
My sole desire to satisfy,
And let me taste once more thy love,
Once more behold thy face, and die. (Hosea 5:15, Ex. 33:20, Luke 2:29-30)
The promise of my chastening God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In their affliction they will seek me early.”—[Hosea] v. 15. 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 76.
Publishing: Public Domain