Had not the Lord reserv’d a seed,
A remnant sav’d by sovereign grace,
His judgments shower’d upon our head,
Had swallow’d up the British race,
Sunk us beneath the ambient wave,
And buried in a fiery grave.
Had not the Lord reserved a seed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”—[Isa.] i. 9. 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 370.
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