But he who gave the slighted word,
Brought it again to mind,
The sinner’s sleeping conscience stir’d,
By shame and sorrow join’d;
For him who, had his Lord forsook,
He pray’d before the throne,
And cast the kind upbraiding look
Which broke his heart of stone.
But He who gave the slighted word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Peter remembred the words of Jesus.”—[Matt.] xxvi. 75. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 414.
Publishing: Public Domain