Peace, doubting heart! hath God begun

Verse 1
Peace, doubting heart! Hath God begun,
And brought me to the birth in vain?
Will Jesus leave his work undone,
Or slight his sin-sick creature’s pain,
My want of faith so kindly shew,
And not the precious gift bestow?

Verse 2
Away my fond and needless fears,
That I shall seek, and never find,
Shall lose, my unavailing tears
O’er-look’d of God, and left behind,
Shall sue for grace, unanswer’d I,
And groan, ’till I in Egypt die!

Verse 3
Who ever ask’d for help in vain,
Or weary sunk beneath his load,
Or knock’d, but could not entrance gain?
Or hopeless died in seeking God,
Nor could at last acceptance meet,
But perish’d at his Saviour’s feet?

Verse 4
His truth and love are on my side,
And stand engag’d to make me blest,
I shall be freely justified,
I shall obtain the promis’d rest,
With eyes of faith my Jesus see,
And feel that he hath died for me.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 1, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 334.
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