Her spirit she gave up!

Verse 1
Her spirit she gave up!
And thus the righteous Lord,
An evil in its birth to stop,
Makes bare his glittering sword!
Beginning at his house,
He never spares his own,
That all may know, our God allows
Impunity to none.

Verse 2
Not rigid wrath extreme,
But wisdom mixt with love
Severely kind, a rotten limb
Doth from the rest remove;
Cut off one member is,
To keep the body whole:
And well for her, if final peace
Surpriz’d her parting soul.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then fell she down at his feet, and yielded up the ghost.’—[Acts 5,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 183.
Publishing: Public Domain