The universal fault

Verse 1
The universal-fault
O how shall I eschew?
Precipitate in thought,
In word and action too,
My nature’s turbulence I own
And look for help in Christ alone.

Verse 2
My hastiness is stay’d
Thro’ faith’s o’re-ruling power,
By Jesus Spirit led,
I hurry on no more,
But subjected to his command,
I join the quiet in the land.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.’—[Acts 19,] v. 36." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 397-98. Verse 1 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 364.
Publishing: Public Domain