Join all, whom God in Jesus spares

Verse 1
Join all, whom God in Jesus spares,
And mingle praises with your prayers,
Sing to the Lord a solemn song,
Whose mercy respites us so long.

Verse 2
Mercy alone deferr’d our doom,
And would not let the judgment come:
Thy mercy we with reverence praise,
And wonder at thy patient grace.

Verse 3
Saviour, thy unexhausted love
Did still th’ approaching woe remove,
With famine, war, and earthquake near,
It rescued us from year to year.

Verse 4
A bush unburnt amidst the flame,
Jesus, we magnify thy name,
Our strange deliverances admire,
And give thee glory in the fire.

Verse 5
Preserv’d so oft, we cannot doubt,
Thy mighty arm shall bear us out,
Our suffering souls like gold refine,
And whiten us in blood divine.

Verse 6
And if the sword a few destroys,
The rest shall tremble, and rejoice,
Repent, and know their sins forgiven,
And glorify the God of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns to be used on the Thanksgiving-Day, November 29, 1759, and After It (London: Strahan, 1759). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 6 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 159.
Publishing: Public Domain