Bray’d in trouble’s mortar I
For half an age have been,
Yet myself I cannot fly,
Or disengage from sin:
What can heal this foolish heart,
Make me wise, and just, and good?
Me and sin forever part?
A drop of Jesu’s blood?
Brayed in trouble’s mortar, I
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”—[Prov.] xxvii. 22. 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 354.
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