Almighty to persuade thou art,
Thou friend of helpless woe,
Persuade me with my sin to part,
To let my misery go;
Persuade me to repent, believe,
Thine easy yoke to prove,
And then into thine arms receive
The captive of thy love.
Almighty to persuade Thou art
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “God shall inlarge (or persuade, Heb.) Japheth.” —Gen. ix. 27. 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 16.
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