“God never can his own reprove,
“Or bruise the objects of his love:[”]
Tis thus the foolish world blaspheme,
And mock our confidence in Him:
But chasten’d by Paternal grace
Our God more closely we embrace,
Assur’d we in his love abide;
For all his sons are crucified.
God never can his own reprove
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 43.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 47.
Publishing: Public Domain