Gracious thou, when most severe:
Let me, Lord, myself resign,
(If I must be punish’d here)
Fall into the hands divine,
Hands that this frail creature made,
Hands that still my soul sustain,
Hands which for my folly bled;
Bled the balm that heals my pain.
Gracious Thou, when most severe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let me fall into the hand of the Lord.”—[I. Chron.] xxi. 13. 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 202.
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