The wrath of frantic man

Verse 1
The wrath of frantic man
Is impotent and vain,
Serves for no religious use,
Works no real righteousness;
Evil cannot good produce,
Cannot cause th’effects of grace.

Verse 2
Then let me calmly flee,
Meek Lamb of God, to Thee:
From the rage of inbred pride
Thou my only refuge art;
Save me shelter’d in thy side
In the centre of thy heart.

Verse 3
There, there in patient peace
Let me my soul possess,
Hid from nature’s furious zeal,
Buried in a sea of blood,
Fill’d with love unspeakable
Arm’d with all the mind of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.’—[James] 1:21 [20].” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. The entire hymn was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 470-71. The first two verses were 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 166.
Publishing: Public Domain