To bring my former sins to mind,
My comforts, Lord, thou dost remove,
Revoke thy gifts, severely kind,
And chasten me in jealous love:
The father’s sin hath slain the son:
And if it still my offspring slays,
Deep humbled in the dust I own
Righteous and good are all thy ways!
To bring my former sins to mind
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Art thou come to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?”—[I. Kings] xvii. 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 178.
Publishing: Public Domain