Ah! Why should ye be stricken more?
Seems our God to give us o’er,
As past his reach of grace,
When mercy’s kind intent is crost,
And all his chastisements are lost
On such an harden’d race.
Ah! why should ye be stricken more
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more.”—[Isa.] i. 5. 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 369.
Publishing: Public Domain