O that His wrath were turned aside

Verse 1
O that his wrath were turn’d aside (Hosea 14:4, Isa. 12:1)
O coud I know him pacified,
Again with pardon blest,
How gladly then shoud I resign
My soul into the hands divine,
And trust him for the rest!

Verse 2
Jesus, my sprinkled heart assure (Heb. 10:22)
Thou didst my life by death procure
Didst buy the sinner’s peace (Rom. 5:1)
That I to sin intirely dead (Rom. 6:11, I Pet. 2:24)
From every thought of evil freed,
Might live to righteousness. (I Pet. 2:24, Rom. 6:18)

Verse 3
Now in the sense of cancel’d sin
Thy sanctifying work begin,
Pour in the balm of grace,
My wounds bind up, my peace restore, (Ps. 147:3)
And sent by Thee, I sin no more (John 5:14, John 8:11, I John 3:6)
But walk in all thy ways. (Deut. 5:33, Deut. 8:6, Deut. 10:12, Deut. 11:22, Deut. 19:9, Deut. 26:17, Deut. 28:9, Deut. 30:16, Josh. 22:5, I Kings 2:3, I Kings 3:14, I Kings 8:58, I Kings 11:38, II Chron. 6:31, Ps. 81:13, Ps. 119:3, Ps. 128:1, Isa. 42:24, Jer. 7:23, Zech. 3:7)

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I will heal thy backslidings, I will love thee freely.’—[Hosea] 14:4.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 85.
Publishing: Public Domain