A soul by man forsaken

Verse 1
A soul by man forsaken
May hang upon thy cross,
For Thou hast undertaken
The friendless sinner’s cause;
His comfort in affliction
That Thou regard’st thine own,
And thro’ thy dereliction
He dwells with God alone.

Verse 2
My Lord by all deserted
Remembers the forelorn,
Binds up the broken-hearted,
And blesses those that mourn:
And if in my temptation
Thou dost my soul attend,
I’l bear the tribulation
Which but with life shall end.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.’—[John 16,] v. 32." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 45.
Publishing: Public Domain