Is it a moral sense in man,
Reason, or pride, or virtue’s power,
Which doth from passion’s rage restrain,
And save us in th’ unguarded hour?
No; but a secret force of thine,
O Christ, preserves thro’ ways unknown:
With-held from sin by grace divine,
I give the praise to God alone.
Is it a moral sense in man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I with-held thee from sinning against me.”—[Gen.] xx. 6. 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 21.
Publishing: Public Domain