Ah! Lord, with thee we ask, how long
Shall men thy patient Spirit grieve,
Thy power mistrust, thy goodness wrong,
Thy faithful promise disbelieve?
Not all the wonders thou hast wrought,
Can yet embolden them to seize
Th’ inheritance thy blood hath bought,
The land of rest and righteousness.
Ah! Lord, with Thee we ask, how long
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “How long will this people provoke me, and how long will it be e’er they believe me for all the signs which I have shewed among them.”—[Num.] xiv. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 76.
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