Chasten’d I all my days have been,
And justly suffer’d for my sin,
But shall I still my God offend,
’Till sin and life together end?
Father, I trust thy faithful love
My sinful nature to remove,
’Till fill’d with Christ, my life, my power,
I can abuse thy grace no more.
Chasten’d I all my days have been
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have born chastisement, I will not offend any more.”—[Job] xxxiv. 31. 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 268.
Publishing: Public Domain