God of grace and patience, hear

Verse 1
God of grace and patience, hear
Those whom Thou hast made sincere,
In the gap who humbly stand
Pillars of a tottering land.

Verse 2
We who woud on Thee rely,
Add to theirs our feeble cry,
Day and night we intercede,
Jesus death for sinners plead.

Verse 3
Thou who hast endur’d so long,
Suffer yet th’ ungodly throng,
While they still thine anger dare,
Still th’ audacious rebels spare.

Verse 4
Tho’ they bear thy name in vain,
Most abandon’d, most prophane,
Let not human wickedness
More abound than heavenly grace.

Verse 5
Monsters of iniquity
Thou dost all their evils see,
All the evils they have done
Thou hast punish’d in thy Son.

Verse 6
Great howe’er their guilt hath been,
If they have not sinn’d the sin
Which Thou never canst forgive,
Let them yet repent, and live.

Verse 7
We for them the promise claim,
Asking life in Jesus name,
Let them live thro’ Christ forgiven,
Strangely snatch’d from hell to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Patriotism.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 60-61.
Publishing: Public Domain