Chastiz’d by an indulgent God,
I would the kind chastisement feel,
But never faint beneath the rod,
Nor desperate, nor insensible:
From each extream divinely kept,
The trouble coming from above
I would with thankful awe accept,
And bless with tears my Father’s love.
Chastised by an indulgent God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint, when thou art rebuked of him.”— [Heb.] xii. 5. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 155.
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