Can sufferings without grace avail

Verse 1
Can sufferings without grace avail
The adamantine heart to move?
A sinner on the verge of hell,
A wretched stranger to thy love
Will louder for his torments cry,
And curse th’ avenging God, and die.

Verse 2
The sufferer without faith or hope
Anticipates his doom below,
Drinks upon earth the dreadful cup
Of dire, unmixt, infernal woe,
And pain unhallow’d, Lord, by Thee,
Expires in endless blasphemy.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘One of the malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him.'—[Luke 23,] v. 39.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 203.
Publishing: Public Domain