Can I be angry, and not sin?
I sin, unless I angry am:
Kindle, almighty LOVE, within
This frozen breast a sacred flame;
Then on myself my wrath shall turn,
’Till thou mine utmost Saviour come,
With all thine indignation burn,
And root and branch my sin consume.
Can I be angry, and not sin
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Be ye angry, and sin not.”—[Eph.] iv. 26. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 72.
Publishing: Public Domain