Thy hasty servant, Lord, restrain,
’Till perfectly renew’d,
As prone alas, to trust in man,
As to mistrust my God!
And lest I every spirit receive
With blind credulity,
Help me each moment to believe
With all my soul in thee.
Thy hasty servant Lord, restrain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Believe not every spirit.”—[1 John] iv. 1. 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 207.
Publishing: Public Domain