My merciful God hath chasten’d his son

Verse 1
My merciful God hath chasten’d his son,
His fatherly rod I thankfully own,
He hath not rejected, or left me to die,
But gently corrected, and laid the rod by.

Verse 2
O how shall I praise the goodness divine?
My remnant of days to him I resign,
My life to the giver I gladly restore,
And praise him for ever when time is no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord hath chastened and corrected me, but he hath not given me over unto death.”—[Psalm] cxviii. 18. 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 326.
Publishing: Public Domain